How Alex Karp Defeated European Defeatism

War presents impossible ethical dilemmas: we don’t want to see people killed, but we must stop others from killing us; we don’t want to send our sons into harm’s way, but we do want to defend our homeland. The best solution is to make warfare more efficient and precisely targeted, thereby putting fewer humans at risk. This is exactly what companies like Palantir are trying to do. But the fundamental question remains: What are the correct motivations for waging war? This new book thinks it’s courage, nationalism, artistic taste, and a 95-year-old German philosopher called Jürgen Habermas.