Foreign Affairs

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México Profundo

Todd Hartch

There is a narrative of Mexican history that might be called “liberal,” or perhaps more accurately “liberal-national-revolutionary.”…

A Tale of Two Constitutions

Andreas Lombard

It never ceases to amaze me how clearly prominent intellectuals at the end of World War II…

The Meaning of Armenia’s Prayer Breakfast

Joel Veldkamp

This past weekend, Armenia, widely regarded as the “first Christian nation,” held its first national prayer breakfast.…

Is the UK a Nation of Immigrants? (ft. Louise Perry)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Louise Perry joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about her recent…

Sounds of Kyoto

Andrew Lansdown

They intensify the courtyard’s evening chill, the dragon flutes, soaring with other woodwinds through variations...

Rome and Immigration

R. R. Reno

The West is being roiled by populism. Voters are increasingly bitter about the effects of globalization, which…

Christian Persecution in Nigeria

Sonnie Ekwowusi

The escalating wave of systematic attacks on Christians has gripped Nigeria in recent years. On October 31,…

The Haunted Empire

Anastasia Shteinert

In October 1905, Papus, a French occultist, performed a solemn ritual amid the marble and gold of…

Catherine Connolly’s Spoiled Victory

John Duggan

Catherine Connolly is Ireland’s new president. Connolly, who was backed by the hard-left parties, received 63 percent…

The Romanticism of Jean Raspail

Matthew Schmitz

One day, the French writer Jean Raspail looked out over the Mediterranean Sea and asked, “What if…

What Britain’s Cousin Marriage Controversy Tells Us

John Duggan

In the year 1075, under the leadership of Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury, an Italian, the Synod of…

Dying from Compassion

George Weigel

The “Mother of Parliaments”—that’s the one in London—has been embroiled for months in a debate over “assisted…

The End of the Fifth Republic

Michel Gurfinkiel

To paraphrase Antoine de Rivarol, the royalist pamphleteer who said that France was an absolute monarchy tempered…

Digital IDs and the Dream of Universal Compliance

Ashley Frawley

On his recent trip to India, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised the country’s Aadhaar digital identification…

Germany’s Escalating Kulturkampf

Andreas Lombard

The Jagdschloss Thiergarten in Donaustauf near Regensburg was destroyed by a fire on the night of October…