Andrew Goodwin returns to PA with his take on innovation in advice and why the profession is experiencing radical disruption ...

In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while ...

Lord Bertrand Russell's “Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev” (New Statesman and Nation, Nov. 23, 1957), urging a summit meeting to consider “the conditions of co-existence,” provided ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell offers this example: “The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to ...

Bertrand Russell in his ‘Conway Memorial Lecture,’ delivered at South Place Institute on 24 March 1922 and published later as a monograph, titled Free Thought and Official Propaganda, gave us ...

But one quote from Russell’s 1930 book The Conquest of Happiness struck me in particular as packing a whole lot of profundity into just 35 words: “The secret of happiness is this: Let your ...

Still, Russell took up the challenge. After a sojourn lasting nearly ten months, he returned to England and in 1922 published a book called “The Problem of China”.

ne litmus test for a successful public intellectual is an indelible YouTube presence. The late Christopher Hitchens passes this test. As do Noam Chomsky and Jordan Peterson. Of course, it helps if you ...

New York: The Modern Library. 1927. 16mo. vii+390 pp. $.95. Philosophy, by Bertrand Bussell, is not, as the wrapper of the book would have you believe, ‘Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy.’ That ...