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“Let There Be Peace on Earth, and Let It Begin with Me” became my favorite hymn when one of my neighbors and best friends sang it on 9/11 at a candlelight vigil. Some 500 people joined in singing it together ...Read more

Fifty-five years ago this month, people from around the world listened and reacted to Bertrand Russell’s public announcement of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.  (See “Remembering Our Humanity” for the full text of the manifesto.) This was his first step in advancing ...Read more

It seems fitting to comment on the two columns we have posted this week, since they are not our usual fare.  Adele Wick’s piece quotes extensively from the Nobel-Prize-winning British Earl, writer, philosopher, mathematician and pacifist, Bertrand Russell.  The second ...Read more

July 16 was the 65th anniversary of the Trinity Test: the detonation of a nuclear weapon for the first time on Earth. Celebrations of this milestone were slight, if any.  July 9 was the 55th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto: ...Read more