Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christianity and the Thucydides Trap
China’s economic growth has been so preposterously huge and fast that statistics sound like a riff from…
Twin Peaks Revisited
In the fall of 1946, Mary McCarthy wrote a letter objecting to a New Yorker essay by…
Shunning the Disabled
Last October, our family realized that we were not welcome in the French Republic. I had always…
Saving Christians from Genocide
Two years after its release, this still photo, taken from an ISIS propaganda video, remains as haunting as…
Recovering a Culture of Affirmation
How to be a European? This question provided the topic for the twelfth annual Vanenburg Meeting, an…
The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?
British Tory Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a massive following on social media. Young people…
Dunkirk: A Riveting Film of War and Survival
Of all the battles of World War II, Dunkirk is among the most important—and least discussed. While…
Are Jihadis “Losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew…
The Cooler Cold War
The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for…
We Want God
It’s been some days since President Trump delivered his speech in Poland on “the West,” but the…
Love at the Edge
Every country has a scent. In countries where bodies smell like bodies, you catch it in the…
Beyond Velvet Nihilism
The post-war era is ending. I’ve said that before (“Return of the Strong Gods”). Donald Trump’s address to…
Trump in Poland
Poland has been an unabashedly pro-American country. No wonder President Trump received a warm welcome here, not…
Dachau Golgotha
The Priest Barracks: Dachau 1938–1945by guillaume zellerignatius press, 280 pages, $16.95 “We are the joyous Hitler Youth. We need no…
The Transfiguration of Death
A long century separates us from the Great War and the “lost generation” that suffered through it—lost,…
