ON 9 JULY 1955, at a press conference in London’s Caxton Hall, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell releases a manifesto ...

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When she was only 17 years old, Malala Yousafzai became the first teenager to ever win a Nobel Prize. Decades earlier, Albert Einstein (erroneously) commented, "A person who has not made his great ...