1. The War of Words
(Newsletter)

... April 2008 Living without Morality – Profit not Peace   There exists in the great satirists – Swift, Voltaire, and Twain – a profound respect for the human's ultimate weapon against mass stupid...

2. Children of Lesser God
(Newsletter)

...as ruled that the Guantanamo prisoners are not persons. CONTINUE... The Origin of Religious Tolerance: Voltaire Society + Culture By MWC NEWS    Monday, 14 January 2008 In 1733, the...

3. Lecturing the New York Times on Libertarianism
(Opinions/Society)

...shouldn’t be punished by the state for making what some people consider is the wrong choice. To paraphrase Voltaire, libertarians might disagree with the peaceful choices you make in life, but we wil...

4. Ziauddin Sardar - The Erasure of Islam
(Opinions/Society)

...neo-conservative thought, dogmatic secularism and scientism.   For key Enlightenment thinkers, such as Voltaire, de Montesquieu, Volney and Pascal, Europe occupied a special place: it was to be t...

5. Getting Political;Changing Lifestyle: Both, Not Either Or!
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...olitical area, so our personal lives can be productive in the sustainability movement. . In college I read Voltaire's Candide. I was taken in with the final chapter where I remembered that I was i...

6. US responsible for 9/11?
(Opinions/Features)

Swiss Scientists Doubt Bush Official Version Two Swiss professors, Professors Daniele Ganser and Albert A. Stahel of the University of Zurich, reported in the largest Swiss newspaper, "Blick&quot

7. The War of Words
(Editor/Editorial)

Living without Morality – Profit not Peace   There exists in the great satirists – Swift, Voltaire, and Twain – a profound respect for the human's ultimate weapon against mass stupidity, the huma

8. The Origin of Religious Tolerance: Voltaire
(Opinions/Society)

..., the philosopher who has been credited with ushering in the French Enlightenment, Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, published a pivotal work entitled Letters Concerning the English Nation. Although ...

9. Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity
(Opinions/op-ed)

...sent, I feel compelled to apply the same principles to the Democratic Party, leading me to conclude, as did Voltaire regarding the unchecked power of The Church in his day, that we must, "crush t...

10. Tis the Season - for miracles
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...hat we are incapable of doing anything. Life is life and that’s the way it is. So said Shakespeare. So said Voltaire’s Dr. Pangloss. This is, after all, the best of all possible lives, for it is all w...