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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ironical that the peace campaigners should have had their lives saved by the military methods they so loftily disapprove. But "peace campaigner" is one of those odd new phrases which actually ...

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 ...