Here’s the latest On Culture episode. Mike talks with Brad Aslin about:

* Generational views on war

* Playing war, now and 50 years ago

* What is the draw of war? What is behind the romanticism of war found in so many stories?

* … and what does any of that have to do (even in our own hearts) with the culture wars being fought all around us?

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