This article is transcribed from the author’s presentation at the Mises Institute’s Costs of War conference in Atlanta, May 20-22, 1994. My friends and I sometimes play a game that you might enjoy; we call it “oxymoron.” The object is to come up with phrases which, while superficially plausible, prove on skeptical examination to involve intellectually comical contradictions in terms. Take, for example, creation science, or journalistic ethics, or the Maoist concept of a cultural revolution. How about the term scholar-athlete or, looking toward the university faculty instead of the students, the scholar-activist. That is actually a phrase the Washington … Continue reading War Wrecks Every Aspect of Life