Russell, Bertrand
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  1. Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
    Resource Type: Article
  2. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
  3. Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1930
    Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
  4. In Praise of Idleness 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1932
    More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
  5. Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920   Published: 1962
  6. Roads to Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1966
    The attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato.