In its aftermath, the international community agreed that war was to be avoided at all costs, aggression could not be ...

When the stakes of public words and actions are global and permanent, and especially when they involve war and peace, can we afford not to seek their meaning? For three decades, Francis Beer has ...

War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed.” In the same essay he dealt with queries and complaints from readers regarding the passages ...

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), a Dutch philosopher and author of De Jure Belli Ac Pacis (The Rights of War and Peace), wrote down the conditions for a just war that are accepted today. Cicero argued ...

His deep identification with Pierre’s roiling inner angst was what inspired him to tackle the mighty challenge of making a contemporary pop opera from Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.