Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Faux Americanization in Britain
As the Parliament of the United Kingdom descended into chaos and internecine warfare, and Britain’s highest court…
The New Irish Ecumenism
Northern Ireland has been at the center of the recent Brexit debates. By insisting on a unified…
Challenges Ahead for Poland’s Conservatives
The recent Polish elections ended in a resounding victory for the ruling national conservative Law and Justice…
Dark Days in Northern Ireland
Until midnight on October 21, abortion was permitted in Northern Ireland only if the mother’s life was…
Poland Polarized
In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the…
Human Dignity Redefined
In revolutionary countries you expect to find desecration: churches turned into lavatories or reformatories, their sanctuaries wrecked…
Houellebecq and the Death of Europe
Serotonin: A Novelby michel houellebecqfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 Europe is old, decrepit, and suffering…
Brexit and Britain’s Collapse
It looks like the dust will soon settle in British politics, and when it does we will…
Canada’s Toxic Nationalism
The rise of nationalist discourse in American public life has generated a fierce riposte. According to its…
Israel’s Political Mythology
Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…
A New Saint on St. Stephen’s Green
Ireland has produced many saints, and John Henry Newman is the latest. Newman was not Irish, of…
What Kind of “Believers”?
This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on…
A German Attack on Christ’s Lordship
Half a millennium after the Reformation, Germans are making trouble again for the Roman Church. This time,…
Britain’s Constitutional Crisis
The United Kingdom has a constitutional crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a minority Conservative government that…
The Judicial Usurpation of Parliament
Far too often nowadays I have that disturbing feeling of walking on a thin crust suspended over…
