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No Justice, No Republic
The Sarah Halimi case—a brutal anti-Semitic assassination followed by an ongoing denial of justice—may be construed as the “original sin” of the current French centrist administration headed by President...
Israel: The Longer View
On the face of it, the latest Israeli general election, which took place on March 23, was just further confirmation of systemic political deadlock. For the fourth time in...
Christian Democracy
In the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process of economic and political cooperation involving most Western European countries was already...
Auschwitz Rightly Remembered
Catholics used to say humorously—back when mutual toleration among Christian churches, or between Christian and non-Christian persuasions, was not yet an admission of religious indifference—that no faith was so...