Adam Hochschild frames his pensive narrative history about the first World War with accounts of his own walks through what once was the Western Front. He describes it as "a thin band of territory, ...

MUCH of the bitterness between pacifists and militarists would be allayed if each side would fairly consider the other’s point of view. Pacifists in general accord more respect to the motives of their ...

What does it really mean to fight for peace? In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores the radical legacy of pacifism and nonviolent ...

On Oct. 7, 1939, Milton Mayer wrote an essay for the Saturday Evening Post titled “I Think I’ll Sit This One Out,” in which he explained why he had no interest in participating in World War II or, for ...

The late WILBUR BURTON’s article first appeared in the Autumn 1951 issue of Retort, the anarchist journal which used to be published at Bearsville, New York by Holley Cantine and Dachine Rainer, by ...

With the Grain of the Universe The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology by Stanley Hauerwas Brazos, 249 pp., $22.99 The Hauerwas Reader edited by John Berkman and Michael G. Cartwright Duke ...

The debaters on the Howard University podium that October 1961 day were taking up a question: Should African Americans be against or for racial separation? On the anti-side was Bayard Rustin, a ...

AUGUSTA COUNTY — Augusta County added a new story to the Civil War Trails program, one which has been largely forgotten for more than 160 years. Titled “Civil Disobedience, the Plight of Pacifists,” ...

Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war ...

THAT question is quite frequently put to me. At first, I was unable to give an answer — any more of an answer than merely, ‘I don’t know, but I’m not.’ As a matter of fact, my reasons were purely ...

There are few biographical contradictions as clean or as consequential as Alfred Nobel's. The man who invented dynamite, held over 350 patents, and built a fortune supplying explosives to armies ...