Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Manners, Methods, and Greatness
Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a…
China, DeepSeek, and American Complacency
History is a heartless teacher. Three hundred years before Christ, Carthage was a prosperous commercial empire dominating…
Roger Scruton’s The Disappeared, Revisited
“It was inconceivable that in a town dedicated to prosperity, comfort and English order, a girl might…
It’s Good That You’re Alive
Our desire is to obtain legal recognition for the principle that in cases of advanced and inevitably…
The End of Trudeau’s Pseudo-Caesarism
When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008, he ushered in a distinctive left-liberal aesthetic of…
Farewell to Liberal-Imperial Diplomacy
In late June 2022, a small rubber dinghy sailed down the Danube River in Budapest, past the…
Orthodoxy at War
St. Sophia Cathedral is quiet and almost empty when I step inside on a wintry morning. Saints…
The Patriarch and the Palestinians
If I drink coffee at every meeting, I’ll kill someone,” His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa says when I…
The Coup Against Romania’s Trumpian Turn
On November 24, the first round of voting in the Romanian presidential elections yielded the unforeseen victory…
Embassy Vatican: Some Demystifications
A change of presidential administrations typically leads to changes in U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, especially at the…
Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button
All politics is local, as they say. And so, before we proceed to the big question of…
The Undoing of Justin Trudeau
For a brief moment, the re-election of Donald Trump must have given the unpopular Canadian prime minister,…
A Great Christian Witness, Too Little Known in the West
The Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky, who died eighty years ago on November 1, 1944, was one of twentieth-century…
The Continuing Scandal of the Vatican’s China Policy
In the annals of historical boorishness, it would be hard to find something more egregious than the…
The New Divide in Global Anglicanism
For the last fifty years the Anglican Communion has been divided over the doctrine of marriage. That…
