What Do You Think About the War After the War?

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The author has some fantastic quotes about the war. He almost never speaks about the war after the war. But he gives an interview to music magazine called zigzag, tust a british magazine,. That's where his quotes that you're referring to come from. And in some ways, its people at theyre at their bestand that comes with its being a matter of life and death.

In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel Aviv, exchanging a personal and creative crisis for a national one. Absent a plan and even a guitar, Cohen wound up serenading Israeli soldiers at the front. Journalist Matti Friedman talks about his book Who by Fire with EconTalk host Russ Roberts and explains how a songwriter and a nation were transformed in the crucible of war.