In 1951, during the rise of McCarthyism, philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote an article titled "The Best Answer to Fanaticism-Liberalism" in The New York Times Magazine. It reads like it could have ...

One day, quoting the renowned thinker Bertrand Russell, he remarked, “Politics is a dirty game for the rascals, not for the ...

Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn ...

First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.” —Philosopher Bertrand Russell explaining the rise of ...

In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Though Bergson’s philosophy can be abstruse—an impatient Bertrand ...

Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he championed humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. He was one of ...

But there is no inoculation against depression. There is no set of words that can wipe away anxieties for good. “Walk and ...

Ralph Schoenman fits that picture. Schoenman, Bertrand Russell's aide and organizer of the tribunal which "tried" the United States for war crimes in Vietnam--can publicly denounce "U.S ...

Language can function only because there are public criteria for acceptable usage.

He clashed publicly with prominent atheists, including Richard Dawkins, and gave testimony in a famous court case in Arkansas ...

A new collection includes the author’s correspondence with figures as diverse as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Russell Kirk, Federico Fellini and Bertrand Russell. A new book brilliantly captures ...

And so we come again to that glorious moment, just ahead of what I hope is a restful festive season for you and your family, when I wheel out my favourite prose of the year, under the auspices of ...