In the 1930s, antiwar feeling was widespread. In 1936, some 500,000 students, almost half of the undergraduates in the United States, participated in a strike against war and compulsory ROTC. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new book follows four World War II pacifists who went on to change American culture. From left: Bayard Rustin, Dorothy Day, ...

My guest today is Daniel Akst, a journalist and novelist who has written one of the most remarkable books I've read in a while. War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who ...

In the 1930s, anti-war feeling was widespread. In 1936, some 500,000 students, almost half of the undergraduates in the United States, participated in a strike against war and compulsory ROTC. During ...

I first encountered the Catholic Worker movement, its co-founder Dorothy Day and the concept of pacifism through Day's autobiography, The Long Loneliness, as a young 20-something in early 2013 — and I ...

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst, Melville House, 368 pages, $23.19 In 1940, during the twilight between peace and war, a ...

Recently, a story (well, rant really) by Daniel Akst in the New York Times complained about too many commercial messages in this country. He argued in “Ubiquitous Ads Devalue All Messages” that with ...

On Oct. 7, 1939, Milton Mayer wrote an essay for the Saturday Evening Post titled “I Think I’ll Sit This One Out,” in which he explained why he had no interest in participating in World War II or, for ...