Foreign Affairs
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Toward Reality-Based Conservatism
Robert T. Miller thinks I’m off my rocker for imagining that our era is one of unprecedented…
The Communist Mystique
Eric Hobsbawm, the distinguished historian and former member of the British Communist Party, was once asked: “Would…
Jerusalem, Above Our Chiefest Joy
Jerusalem was last a recognized capital city exactly 830 years ago, when in 1187 the Crusader Kingdom…
He Went There
He was not a refugee, not an immigrant, not a displaced person. Or, rather: yes and no.…
In Defense of Regal Popes
Given that the evils against which he fought—totalitarian repression, unrestrained capitalism, sexual immorality, moral heresy, aggressive secularism,…
Russian Alchemy
Ours is an ideological age. War, revolution, and terrorism are lit by ideas. Majorities regulate speech and…
Alice’s Oxford
Here comes another atheist children’s book by Philip Pullman, and I bet it would not get half…
Commie Comedy
Comrade Detective, a new Amazon miniseries, is a spoof wrapped in a parody wrapped in a satire.…
The Queen Would Not Be Amused
As one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Canadian subjects, I personally doubt she would approve of the remarks…
Exit Neoliberalism
Exit Westby mohsin hamidriverhead books, 240 pages, $26 In an odd way, Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, Exit…
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s…
The Church in Afghanistan
Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…
We Found Our Joy in Latin
Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
In Praise of Borders
Borders are a substitute used by less fortunate lands for the sea and the mountains behind which…
