Why Retribution Isn’t a Moral Good

An argument from evolutionary psychology

This season of Slate’s Slow Burn podcast—which explores the question of how the US wound up invading Iraq in 2003—has launched, and the first few episodes are good. However:

Initially, I thought I might show up in it. As I mentioned in an earlier issue of the newsletter, Slate taped a conversation with me and half a dozen other old-time Slatesters about …