During the war, pollsters were busy asking the same question singer Edwin Starr asked in 1970: War! (Huh--yeah) What is it good for? Starr's answer? Absolutely nothing.

War – huh – what is it good for? Edwin Starr Starr, E’s provocative framing of this question forces us to reassess something the majority of us believe to be a bad thing, which should be avoided at ...

“War! What is it good for?” sings Edwin Starr in his 1970 song, before giving an unambiguous answer: “absolutely nothing.” History, archaeology, and anthropology, however, suggest that the ...

To quote the late Edwin Starr from his 1970 Motown hit: “War! Huh. Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’.” Starr had something more serious in mind, but you get the picture.

‘War is what happens when language fails,’ wrote Margaret Atwood. Or ‘Jaw, jaw is better than war, war,’ as Churchill famously said. When I was taken to ...