Years of secrecy surrounding the United States’ drone program have left many questions—about targeted killings, transparency, and due process; the power of President; and where battlefields begin and end.
On Thursday, The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson hosted a live chat on the ethics of drone warfare, featuring Michael Walzer, the author of “Just and Unjust Wars” and a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; Jeff McMahan, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers and the author of “The Ethics of Killing”; and The New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer. Read a transcript of the discussion in the console below.
Illustration by Guy Billout.
