The Yale Law Journal

William B. Michael

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Romanticizing Guilt

William B. Michael

112 Yale L.J. 1625 (2003)

George P. Fletcher's Romantics at War begins by describing an ironic blindness. The threat of terrorism has forced Americans to consider questions of war and guilt with a new sense of immediacy and relevance, to disorienting effect. We remain unable to reconcile our instinct…