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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent attacks in Brussels have once again raised a difficult question: How do we combat terrorism? It’s a complicated problem, and there are no easy answers, but almost everyone agrees that ...

There is a romantic wistfulness for the pacifist cause. Last year’s Mel Gibson’s excellent film Hacksaw Ridge depicted the heroic actions of Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist who conscientiously ...

With the Grain of the Universe The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology by Stanley Hauerwas Brazos, 249 pp., $22.99 The Hauerwas Reader edited by John Berkman and Michael G. Cartwright Duke ...

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, ...