Bourne on War

by | Apr 5, 2017

Bourne on War

by | Apr 5, 2017

Randolph Bourne, who broke with his Progressive comrades a century ago and opposed Woodrow Wilson on US entry into the Great War, is famous for writing, “War is the health of the state.” He also wrote this:

“Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it.”

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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