Operation Edgelord

Four common ways of denying the ‘Myth of the Good War.’ Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Those who deny the Myth of the Good War—the belief, described in my previous essay in this series, that World War II is a distinctively, perhaps uniquely, good war—fall, I think, into four broad categories. One: A Plague on Both Your Houses. The serious writers who say explicitly that there is no moral difference between the Allies and the Axis are few and far between. Alan Jacobs is a professor of humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and a senior fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is ‘Paradise Lost: A Biograph