Mises Daily
Author:
Wendy McElroy
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“War is the health of the State.” The famous seven words appeared in an unfinished manuscript written by the progressive essayist Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886-1918) during World War I. In a collection of Bourne’s essays entitled War and the Intellectuals (1964), editor Carl Resek explained the phrase’s meaning. Resek wrote, “In its proper place