Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the specter haunting the United States: the specter of ...

Bertrand Russell’s timeless observation—“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts”—resonates as profoundly ...

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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 ...

Limitations of space make it impracticable to notice them separately; but some account may be given of the picture of Russell and his philosophy which emerges from the work as a whole.