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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1940s, some men involved in radical pacifism dubbed themselves “commandos of the spirit.” In her book, Radical Pacifism in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press), Ms. Mollin ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does it mean to be a pacifist? Pacifism is, of course, a philosophy, an idea defined by Webster’s dictionary as being in opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. It may also ...

Near Nagoya, startup AirKamuy is building affordable cardboard “origami drones” as Japan accelerates defense innovation under ...