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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 [...]

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We like to draw attention to the problems that exist in our country today, yet we live in a remarkably wealthy, peaceful and free society.
Steven Pinker writes in the New Republic, for example, that horrifying violence used to be commonplace:
Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor-saving device, conquest [...]

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