Laurie Calhoun

Laurie Calhoun, a philosopher and cultural critic, is the author of We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age (Zed Books 2015, 2016) and War and Delusion: A Critical Examination (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, 2016). She has also published a metafictional novel, You Can Leave (Subversive Pulp Press, 2018--available in audiobook, ebook, hardcover and softcover editions), and a book on metaphilosophy (Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique).

Calhoun published one of the first moral essays critical of targeted killing, "The Strange Case of Summary Execution by Predator Drone," only months after the execution by the CIA of six people in Yemen on November 3, 2002. She authored the chapter "Targeted Killing and Drone Warfare" for the Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (2016), and recently published "Totalitarian Tendencies in Drone Strikes by States" in Critical Studies on Terrorism (2018). A list of published book chapters, essays and books can be found at her blog: https://thedroneage.wordpress.com/publications-by-laurie-calhoun/

She has been invited to speak about her work at conferences and colloquiums and has been interviewed on many podcast and radio programs, including BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed and Sputnik Radio Brave New World.