A hollow code

The Genocide Convention is a neutered piece of law that does little but protect the unjust

THE CENTREPIECE OF OUR moral world, the very ballast by which human wrongdoing is weighed, the strongest pillar of international law is hollow. The theory of genocide and its supporting Convention, as I argue in a polemic for the New Republic, has been utterly compromised:

Of course, it is precisely those ideas that seem obvious and self-evident that des…