Imprisoned 90 years ago this month
Posted in Factoid on Sep 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
In September 1918 philosopher and future Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell was hauled off to prison for six months. His crime was speaking out against World War I.
Living through September 11 and the nationalism that swept over our country immediately afterward, pushing us into an unnecessary and disconnected war in Iraq, I remember how [...]
