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Phil Klay

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Phil Klay

@PhilKlay

Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.

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Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Dec 5, 2025
“The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies, they’re selling a version of what it means to be an American” I wrote about the Trump administration, the boat strikes, and St. Augustine.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Feb 25, 2022
The sad thing is that if we hadn’t expanded NATO, Putin would have tirelessly devoted himself to world peace and the brotherhood of man.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Sep 13, 2025
“I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Apr 5, 2025
“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Mar 1, 2025
Shel Silverstein wrote pretty good war poems
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Nov 18, 2019
"We’ve discovered a new way to defile the uniform. Today, we allow murderers to wear it while being lauded as heroes." Superb, brutally honest piece from @elliotackerman time.com/5731655/trumps…
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Sep 13, 2025
Replying to @Jeff__Steele
The article notes an employee at FEMA has been placed on administrative leave for posting that Kirk was a “racist homophobe misogynist.”
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Nov 19, 2015
16. But it's only during frightening times when you get to find out if your country really deserves to call itself the 'home of the brave.'
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Sep 13, 2025
Replying to @Jeff__Steele
Are you saying the right is being loathsome here, insofar as they are doing cancellations with government power, or do you not care about free speech and think pointing to left wing excesses means it’s fine?
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Mar 27, 2022
I just went to Mearsheimer’s website and I was not prepared for his homepage.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Apr 21, 2025
From Pope Francis’ Easter message yesterday.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Nov 23, 2020
“The machinery...had me killing them.” This, from Obama’s memoir, is pretty pathetic from a president who, for example, slashed economic assistance to Iraq and then ramped up military involvement while lying about it.
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Mar 10, 2024
Anyone who wants to seriously grapple with war had better be prepared for far more shocking opinions than are found in this thoughtful essay by a translator and writer living in Israel. Shame on @GuernicaMag for pulling it down. Archived link here: web.archive.org/web/2024030509…
Phil Klay
@PhilKlay
Nov 11, 2021
This is not true. Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, the Sahel…