How War Shapes Us
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Margaret MacMillan is a war historian, and the author of "War: How It Shaped Us." She joins the show to discuss the nature of war, its history, what precipitates conflict, and how to avert it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and I've never been in a war. |
| 0:18.0 | One time a guy in Albania thought I was a former child soldier because I had been in the Boy Scouts |
| 0:22.0 | and he got really excited and handed me |
| 0:24.0 | in AK-47, but that's about as close as I've ever come to war. |
| 0:28.0 | Yet, war is what we're going to discuss today, and you're going to love my guest. |
| 0:34.7 | Occasionally I finish an interview and I think, thank God I drank a pot of coffee before I spoke |
| 0:38.9 | to that person. |
| 0:39.9 | This lady is very smart, very, very quick. |
| 0:42.2 | And we're going to get into all sorts of stuff. |
| 0:43.8 | If war is endemic to the human experience, |
| 0:46.6 | what prompts or stonches warlike impulses, |
| 0:49.9 | the role of civilians and how technology alters it and us. You can find her book, |
| 0:55.4 | War, how it shaped us, wherever you get books, but you can find it, plus all of the books |
| 1:00.0 | we discuss in this program by going to mighty heaten.com slash featured. |
| 1:04.0 | Now normally at this point I would do a Patreon plug you know the drill go to |
| 1:08.8 | patreon.com slash Andrew heaten but actually you know I thought it would be fun to maybe play a clip from the show |
| 1:14.9 | archives instead back during World War II. This is from our June 4th, 1942 episode of the political |
| 1:22.4 | orphanage where being good Patriots we got in on the efforts by selling war bonds. Bye, by by by by a bond, and by a bond, and by and by the bonds you buy |
| 1:41.8 | will bring you victory. |
| 1:44.3 | Hello friends and neighbors, Andrew Dunkark Heaton here. |
| 1:47.8 | We sure appreciate you listening to this gramophone cast. |
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