Q: In my experience with pacifists, they are at times forced to call the police. The contradiction being that they are willing to ask for the assistance of someone very willing to resort to violence, ...

When the editors of The New Republic conceived the magazine, they never intended to devote so many of their pages to the affairs of Europe. But by the time they sat down to prepare their first issue, ...

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Shortly after September 11, a customer at the Olympia Candy Kitchen offered Carrie Stoltzfus a bracelet made with red-white-and-blue cloth, and inscribed with the words “Freedom: 1776 to 2001.” She ...

It is better to wage war than to allow democracy to be taken hostage by terrorism, argues Scott Simon, host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Mr. Simon describes the international ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of economics and politics. This article is more than 10 years old. As we celebrate Memorial Day, ...

The nice thing about pacifists is that there are so few of them. That’s the kind of bait one can’t resist tossing upon the waters. It’s probably true that there aren’t many pacifists–only two dozen ...

Abington Friends School in Jenkintown has a no-nonsense dress code: To conform to Quaker philosophy, students may not wear T-shirts that promote violence. In practice, though, not all violence is ...

THE pen is mightier than the sword, when the sword has drawn the ink; the dollar is sometimes mightier than either, but might does not make right. Convictions of pacifism are daily torn from our ...

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 ...