What George W. Bush seemed not to know, in September, 2001, is that a self-justifying drive to “rid the world of evil” can itself become evil’s incubator. Does America know that yet?
“No first use” harkens back to the informal moral consensus that America is not a nation to start a nuclear war. Warren and Smith’s bill aims to enshrine that consensus in law.
Banished from Boston and protected in Rome, Law became a symbol of the Catholic hierarchy’s failure to reckon with its crimes—a failure that continues today.