Robert Emmet Meagher, professor of humanities at Hampshire College, is author of Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War, and (forthcoming in the fall) Killing From the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War.

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Is a necessary war necessarily good?

Opinion: How does any war get the name "good"? And how does such a name stick for 70 years?