Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Choosing to Refuse
Sometimes, digesting the latest news of the unhinging of the world, one is tempted to fall into…
Trump in Britain
For many of us here in Great Britain, the supreme moment of President Donald Trump’s visit came…
The Real Modern Anti-Semitism
A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…
The Phony War on “Taliban Ireland”
It would be difficult to propose a context in which blasphemy and homemaking might provide fodder for…
Homelands and Social Doctrines
With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican for a synod in October 2001, I decided to…
State Irreligion
In the May 1892 issue of Le Banquet, a young Marcel Proust wrote a spirited condemnation, excerpted…
Poland and the Future of Europe
As a child growing up in the Polish diaspora, I often visited the land of my forefathers…
After the Irish Debacle
I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal…
Dreams of Progress Meet Ethnic Cleansing
How was the world misled by Aung San Suu Kyi? The question has often been asked since…
Solzhenitsyn’s Prophecy
Versions of these remarks were delivered this spring at the commencement ceremony for the Mount Academy of…
Thinking Under the Influence
You know you’re getting old when trimming your toenails becomes an ordeal. They don’t look as if…
Covering Antietam
On October 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln met with General George B. McClellan near the site of…
Italy Challenges the Postwar Order
Italy’s new government represents the most radical challenge yet to the order that has dominated Europe since…
Ireland: An Obituary
This country of ours is no sand bank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It…
Justin Trudeau and the Dictatorship of Relativism
You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met some folks…
