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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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE attitude of the average man toward his fellows is one of nicely balanced trust and mistrust, of confidence and fear. The relation of human groups to each other is usually characterized by the same ...

The results from the February 8 election suggest that the long-standing debate over Japan’s defense policy has largely been settled.