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'War by Other Means' tells the story of those conscientious objectors during who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.

An award-winning historian, journalist, author and longtime editor of the Nation, Victor Navasky has died at 90

Author: Daniel Akst In “War By Other Means,” Daniel Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters — four figures who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists — and their daring exploits: David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin. The

Daniel Akst’s “We Have Met the Enemy” is an intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self-control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do. This conundrum of self-control has occupied thinkers since the time of Socrates. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and lately economists have wrestled with the

Daniel Akst discusses 'War By Other Means,' a portrait of four World War II pacifists, including Bayard Rustin and Dorothy Day, who changed American culture.