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May 5, 2015

Albert Einstein, Zionism, and Pacifism

His journey from physics to social activism.

Albert Einstein spent much of the latter part of his career as a self-proclaimed public intellectual, advocating pacifism and (a qualified) Zionism and denouncing nuclear weapons and the cold war. Gertrude Himmelfarb, reviewing a new biography, examines his political evolution:

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May 5, 2015

  1. Ayatollah Khamenei Uses Twitter to Reach Out to Useful Idiots

    Or whoever runs his Twitter account.

  2. For German Police, the Problem Isn’t Anti-Semitic Violence, It’s Israeli Flags

    A depressingly familiar three-act pattern.

  3. Albert Einstein, Zionism, and Pacifism

    His journey from physics to social activism.

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    If Ed Miliband has his way it will.