The Just War Tradition: Evaluating the Moral Status of Modern Warfare.

The Philosophy Club and the Philosophy Department warmly invite you to a lecture by J. Daryl Charles entitled “The Just War Tradition: Evaluating the Moral Status of Modern Warfare.”

J. Daryl Charles, Ph.D., is a senior fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture, & Democracy and serves as a contributing editor of both Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and the journal Touchstone. He is author or editor of 24 books, including – most recently – The Idea and Importance of Natural Law: 50 Questions and Answers (Stone Tower Press, 2025), Our Secular Vocation (B&H Academic, 2023), (with Eric D. Patterson) Just War and Christian Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), and (with Mark David Hall) America’s Wars and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019).

Prior to entering the university classroom, Charles did public-policy work in criminal justice in Washington, DC. He has taught at Taylor University, Union University, Berry College, and the John Jay Institute. He has served as a 2024/25 visiting senior Elshtain fellow, Institute on Religion and Democracy; he served as director of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought & Practice; he was a 2013/14 visiting professor in the honors program at Berry College; he served as a 2007/8 William B. Simon visiting fellow in Religion and Public Life at the James Madison Program, Princeton University, as well as the 2003/4 visiting fellow of the Institute for Faith & Learning, Baylor University.