The love of truth and the truth of love: Bertrand Russell on the two pillars of human flourishing

By on    Art and peace, Civilisation and philosophy, Ethics and values, Nonviolence, PEACE, Peace - Reconciliation, forgiveness, dignity, Peace and religions, Peace Culture, Peace philosophy, Peace prizes incl Nobel, Peace-keeping, making, building, Reconciliation and forgiveness, Sociology, Thinking  

The love of truth and the truth of love: Bertrand Russell on the two pillars of human flourishing

By Maria Popova October 8, 2020 In the mid-1950s, as the icy terror of the Cold War was cloaking the embering rubble of two World Wars, the BBC producer and cartoonist Hugh Burnett envisioned an unexampled program to serve both as a cross-cultural bridge and a mirror beaming back to a dimmed and discomposed humanity […]

The putrid mess of Israeli politics

By on    Jonathan Power, MIDDLE EAST, Palestine and Israel, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2019  

The putrid mess of Israeli politics

By Jonathan Power December 18, 2019 Israeli politics gets messier and messier. Now there is to be yet another election, hard on the heels of the last one which, in turn, was hard on the heels of the one before. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have two major aims in life. The first is […]