Art, War, and The Human Condition.

As I sit down to write this month’s column, it’s 13 years to the day that the American military invaded Iraq. That invasion, and the subsequent nine years of war and occupation, irrevocably ruptured the lives of millions of Iraqis, as well as hundreds of thousands of American service-members and their families. The war still isn’t over for Iraq, nor is the fallout from the war even close to seeing its end back here. And now it looks like we’ll be a part of whatever comes next in Iraq — though how much we’re involved, and for how long, has not yet been determined.

Which brings me to the crossroads of War and Art. Since at least the time of the Iliad, war has been an artist’s subject. It is one of life’s great ironies that one of... Read More