Arts & Letters Daily search results for “"bertrand russell"” (25)
2014-09-30 | Histories of philosophy are difficult to write. Bertrand Russell excelled. Then there's Peter Adamson's new, pun-laden work more »
2014-07-21 | Bertrand Russell - dapper don, clever thinker, champion of moral conviction - got much right. About war and peace, however, he was consistently wrong more »
2016-12-02 | Boredom gets a bad rap. We need it in order to live and think well. Its defenders include Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Sontag more »
2016-09-30 | The notion of time travel beguiled Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel, and Stephen Hawking. Has any idea produced more convoluted and futile philosophical analysis? more »
2020-02-15 | Bertrand Russell found prison life agreeable — plenty of time for reading and writing. The only problem was a guard shushing his laughter more »
2020-02-05 | Bertrand Russell is often regarded as wanting to rid philosophy of ethics. But he had his own ethical theories. What he opposed was using ethics to prop up nationalism more »
2015-08-21 | Young T.S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf feared him; Ezra Pound envied him; Bertrand Russell respected him – though not enough to decline an affair with Eliot’s wife more »
2011-01-01 | This war is trivial, said Bertrand Russell in 1918. "No great principle is at stake, no great human purpose is involved." Jailed, he joined the largest group of political prisoners ever in a Western democracy more »
2016-05-11 | To be a writer is to accept abuse. Here's D.H. Lawrence to Bertrand Russell: "The article you send me is a plausible lie, and I hate it." They were friends more »
2010-01-01 | The demise of dueling, Bertrand Russell felt, had "made it difficult to be insulting without being ungentlemanly." We need ways to be offensive without seeming to be ill-bred more »
2015-05-28 | Bertrand Russell said that he feared argument with John Maynard Keynes, likening it to taking his life in his own hands. Keynes was ruthless, especially toward fellow academics. more »
2020-01-06 | The two Bertrand Russells. It's common to believe that the philosopher gave way to the political hack. But that account is simplistic more »
2013-08-26 | If the humanities are in trouble, says Russell Jacoby, Stanley Fish is one reason. His problem: relentless careerism more »
2014-03-31 | Shakespeare's nemesis. Cursed by bad back, Lady Russell was powerful, litigious, and no stranger to armed combat more »
2016-01-25 | Russell Kirk - eccentric, dandyish, celibate into his 40s - articulated a conservatism nothing like the political doctrines of today more »
2022-12-22 | "We are witnessing the invasion of the public square by the campus, an intrusion of academic terms and sensibilities." Russell Jacoby explains more »
2012-08-16 | What's happened to intellectual life on the right? In flight from elitism, conservatism has dead-ended in a populist swamp, says Russell Jacoby more »
2014-04-21 | Rioting, kidnapping, breaking and entering, violence: For Elizabeth Russell, warfare was a way of life, as Shakespeare learned the hard way more »
2016-05-31 | A conservative's mind. Russell Kirk articulated a conservatism that served as a means, a mood, an attitude, but never conformed to any party or movement more »
2022-01-20 | A literary injustice: The ambitious, serious Russell Hoban is best remembered for his children’s books about Frances the Badger more »
2011-01-01 | The idea of the "other" - foreign, menacing - is catnip for scholars of violence, says Russell Jacoby. He takes another view: Wars more often pit brother against brother more »
2019-01-28 | Once you start making money, writing becomes work and ceases to be fun, said Russell Baker, who died last week. But “when writing is fun, it’s not very good" more »
2019-03-22 | Was Shakespeare a “punk poet,” a “proto-rockstar,” a “16th-century Russell Crowe,” and also a talentless middleman? Indeed so, says a new book more »
2018-04-12 | Bill Buckley’s conservative irregulars. In its early days, the National Review’s staff included a former spokesman for Leon Trotsky, a nocturnal ex-Communist, and Russell Kirk more »
2018-10-22 | Russell Kirk was more littérateur than leader. But just think how different things might be had he, not William F. Buckley Jr., been the public face of conservativism more »