If I believed, coming out of the starting gate, that my only hope of living anything resembling a virtuous life is to ...

Bertrand Russell, for example, remains a towering reminder of intellectual bravery. Such clarity, though increasingly rare, ...

BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Ghost of Madness. By Ray Monk. Free Press, $40. THE splendid subtitles of Ray Monk's two-volume biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell illuminate two ...

Bertrand Russell, ahead of his time. March 2, 2012. Fareed Zakaria ["Israel's false choice," op-ed, Feb. 16] was quite right that Iran's apparent pursuit of a nuclear weapon needn't prompt an ...

Bertrand Russell: The thinking person's superhero 'Logicomix', the story of Bertrand Russell's struggles with philosophy and his sanity, takes the graphic novel into remarkable new territory.

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One person who certainly did was the eminent 20th-century British thinker Bertrand Russell, who was not only a philosopher, mathematician, and logician but also a Nobel laureate in literature.

Bertrand Russell, for instance, serves as a reminder of intellectual bravery in dark times. Today, such moral clarity is rare but not extinct. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, ...