{"id":25454,"date":"2015-07-23T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25454"},"modified":"2015-07-24T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:40:40","slug":"angela-keaton-vs-ian-morris-debate-warwhatisit-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/angela-keaton-vs-ian-morris-debate-warwhatisit-good-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Keaton vs. Ian Morris Debate: War,&nbsp;What&nbsp;Is&nbsp;It Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/docs5\/angeladebate.mp3\">Listen to the debate.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomfest2015.sched.org\/event\/240a0ee0afb6b27f948b29ea95510169\">Freedom Fest<\/a>, our Director of Operations, Angela Keaton, debated historian and archaeologist <a href=\"https:\/\/classics.stanford.edu\/people\/ian-morris\">Ian Morris<\/a> on his recent book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-What-Good-For-Civilization\/dp\/0374286000\/antiwarbookstore\">War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Morris&#8217; general thesis is that over human history war has created larger more organized governments which made for a more peaceful society. <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/docs5\/angeladebate.mp3\">Keaton disagrees<\/a>. Antiwar.com columnist Dan Sanchez weighs in with pre-debate commentary at <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/dan_sanchez\/2015\/06\/22\/no-war-is-not-the-health-of-peace\/\">No, War is not the Health of Peace and Prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/docs5\/angeladebate.mp3\">Listen to the debate.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the debate. At this summer&#8217;s Freedom Fest, our Director of Operations, Angela Keaton, debated historian and archaeologist Ian Morris on his recent book War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots. Morris&#8217; general thesis is that over human history war has created larger more organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,82,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-economics","category-empire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25456,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25454\/revisions\/25456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25454"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}