Welcome to a very special episode of Public Ethics Radio. This podcast is the result of a semester-long experiment conducted by a class of students at Queens College of the City University of New York. The students took an upper-level philosophy seminar co-taught by Matt Peterson and Queens College’s Sari Kisilevsky. Students spent the semester developing and recording short podcasts. In this two-part episode, we present those student-produced podcasts.
The students were asked to answer the question: what do today’s new wars—especially Iraq and Afghanistan—tell us about our traditions of just war theory? Episodes in Part I center on questions of the first phase of just war theory, jus ad bellum. Listen to the episode to hear their answers.
Part I features the following students.
1. Sam Colonna, on humanitarian intervention.
2. Adam Yefet, on jus ad bellum.
3. Raymond Holgado, on terrorism.
4. Jonathan Vazcones, on economic sanctions.
Click here to download the episode (32:32, 23.5 MB, MP3), or click on the online media player below.
