Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Havana Declaration
For me, the text of the Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill’s joint declaration came as a surprise,…
An Abandoned White Middle Class
Is First Things promoting its own form of identity politics? A friend wrote recently, wondering exactly that.…
China’s Population Crisis: An Evangelical Opportunity?
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been…
Eastern Christmas and Egypt’s President
Egypt’s Coptic Christians follow the Julian calendar in celebrating Christmas on January 7th of each year. For…
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…
Looking Toward November 8
To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare”—in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign—will…
Liberal Racism Bares Its Fangs
Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use…
The War According to Isaac Babel
Red Cavalry by Boris Dralyukpushkin press, 224 pages, $18.00 Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry, now granted an afterlife…
Machiavellianism and Idealism in Foreign Policy
Is the US obligated to do what is best for its people regardless of justice, or is…
The Last Scapegoat
The following is a sermon given last Sunday at All Souls Church (Wheaton, IL) in the wake…
All for Christ
By the time of her death this past summer, Elisabeth Elliot—wife, mother, missionary and writer— had become…
An Alternative to Terror
Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary by valerie miké hamilton books, 350 pages, $38.99 One of Budapest’s…
Bonhoeffer’s Last Advent
One year before Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis on the morning of April 9, 1945,…
Why We Cannot Reach Compromise
The other day, I read a column in the National Post that made my stomach turn. It…
Taking Aim at Francis
Details are still coming out about the arrest of four men who were allegedly plotting to attack…
