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Muffling the Clash
The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic. 281 pp. $26. Political freedom remains alien to most of the world’s...
Don’t Call it Proselytism
Don’t Call it Proselytism by Lawrence A. Uzzell Several years ago, during an interview I was conducting with him on church-state relations, an adviser to a provincial governor in...
Russia: Religion on a Leash
To those who value stability above all other political goods, Russia should look more attractive now than at any time since the early 1980s. That is especially true for...
Remembering the Gulag
Gulag: A History . By Anne Applebaum. Doubleday. 720 pp. $35 . Somewhere a young film student is reading Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History , a magisterial survey of...
Letter from Moscow
Visitors from the West are often surprised to learn how many historic Catholic churches are scattered about the Russian heartland. Today’s ultra-nationalists cultivate the myth of a purely Russian-speaking,...
The Pope’s Letter to Moscow
On June 24, 1997, the Vatican made a mistake in political judgment. Pope John Paul II sent a letter to Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, that was intended to...
