Anyone who has read this blog knows that Bertrand Russell is one of my intellectual heroes. Here are two brief interviews with him when he was in his late eighties. Continue reading Bertrand Russell’s Message to the Future →

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. ~ Bertrand Russell (“Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel,” pp. 178-179) Continue reading We fear thought →