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, ...

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 ...

Thou shalt not kill. It seems simple enough. But can pacifism work as a strategy against violence and injustice? Tim Gee and Rahila Gupta go head to head. A woman holds up painted hands at a New York ...

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, ...

Finlay Whittlesey was the archetype of an idiosyncratic, old-school professor. He taught mathematics at Trinity College in Hartford for more than 41 years while continuing his own research on ...

I HAVE already shown in these pages that Pangermanism, and the concrete plan resulting from it, constitute the fundamental, deep-rooted, and remote cause of the war. I propose now to explain why ...

The Donbas and its independent republics, the Crimean Peninsula, the coasts of the Black Sea, the pipelines crossing Ukrainian territory, the attempt to escape from the deadly embrace of NATO, are ...

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 conscientious objector is a popular trope in any drama touching on the First World War: Downton Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs and more recently The Village have been awash with young men persecuted ...

Novelist Nicholson Baker argues that more negotiation with Hitler might have saved Jewish lives, a view shared by few historians. If there is a holy grail for pacifists—an argument that would prove, ...