Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hitler the Progressive
Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…
Australian Justice in the Dock
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…
Prosperity Breeds Idiots
At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave…
The Fate of Hong Kong’s Christians
Christians in Hong Kong overwhelmingly support the mass protests that have disrupted the region for the last…
The Polish Heroes of World War II
Sunday marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. On September 1, 1939, Poland…
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
The Australian Disgrace
There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
In late June I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few…
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…
Cosmopolite Panic
A friend recently wrote to me, informing me we have fallen out over Brexit. He notes in…
Boris Johnson’s Challenge
The advent of Boris Johnson as British prime minister has a feeling of inevitability about it. Theresa…
On the New “Nationalism”
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a…
The Boris Act
The name of Britain’s new prime minister isn’t actually “Boris.” “Boris” is a stage name, jokey and…
Resurrection in Albania
A visit to Albania today reminds the traveler of the worst of modernity and the fall of…
The Quiet Hours of Leonid Brezhnev
On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one…
