Foreign Affairs

A few weeks ago, while walking through the halls of the hospital where I work, I ran…

Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory…

A couple of years ago, I heard the historian David Starkey describe the Church of England as…

The Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, was, according to British historian Andrew Roberts,…

Friedrich Merz, the new German chancellor, is the first head of government in the federal republic to…

Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe…

The riddle of Japanese Catholicism has long fascinated me. At the end of World War II, Catholics…

After the Cold War, the United States could imagine that its military was all-­powerful. America seemed capable…

Reforming the Vatican’s policy on China should be a priority of the next papacy. The current approach…

In 2005, I published a small book entitled The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics…

Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that…

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Josh Hammer joins in…

François Mitterrand, who is now remembered as the greatest, or at least the savviest, left-wing statesman of…

In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent…

There’s no doubt that the so-called “woke” march toward cultural domination suffered a setback after the 2024…