Am I allowed my fantasies?’ Joan Baez ponders lifelong pacifism in Trump-inspired poem - POETRY: Last year, the acclaimed ...

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 ...

The event, held annually in conjunction with the Community of the Cross of Nails and the Coventry Cathedral in England, reminds participants of Jesus’ emphasis on reconciliation and of Christian ...

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, ...

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 GREEKS DIDN’T HAVE A WORD FOR PACIFISM. The term, according to Funk & Wagnalls, is of recent coinage, although of obvious derivation, and a “pacifist” is defined as “one who opposes military ...

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, ...

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 ...

POETRY: Last year, the acclaimed singer and civil rights activist Joan Baez published her debut poetry collection. Today, she ...