“War,” Edwin Starr famously wondered, “What is it good for?” I’ll tell you what it’s good for: War inspires art. Obviously, no one sane hankers for it, but without war our culture wouldn’t have Picasso’s “Guernica,” Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Springsteen’s “Lost in the Flood,” Altman’s “M*A*S*H” — I could totally cram this […]
