Cornell was instrumental in legitimizing pacifism as an alternative to just war theology and ensuring, as Karl Hess observed at the American bicentennial, “that when for reasons of conscience ...

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.

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst, Melville House, 368 pages, $23.19. In 1940, during the twilight between peace and war, a ...

During the decade, pacifism may have surpassed the Depression as the dominant social issue among American liberal Protestants. “I am a pacifist,” President Franklin Roosevelt declared in 1940.

Granddad wasn’t alone. In “War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance,” journalist Daniel Akst argues that the modern progressive movement ...