Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Moral Logic of Finishing a War
War seldom ends according to a satisfying script. Unconditional surrender—the banner headline of 1945—is a historical rarity,…
The Vatican’s Duty to Armenian Christians
Last month, in one of the first liturgical acts of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV formally took…
Yes, It’s Our War, Too
In late May, Trump administration officials at the highest level, frustrated by what they regard as Vladimir…
Catholic Ireland’s Dead and Gone
One hundred years ago today, W. B. Yeats, poet, senator of the Irish Free State, and proud…
Saving Christian Europe
Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe…
Fukuyama Gets Strauss Wrong
Francis Fukuyama lacks self-knowledge. On June 4, he republished excerpts from Leo Strauss’s 1941 lecture on “German…
“I’m Sorry My Colleague Killed Your Sister”
A few weeks ago, while walking through the halls of the hospital where I work, I ran…
Getting Foreign Aid Right
Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory…
Defending the Christian Character of England
A couple of years ago, I heard the historian David Starkey describe the Church of England as…
Genocide in Gaza?
The Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, was, according to British historian Andrew Roberts,…
Friedrich Merz’s Fragile Victory
Friedrich Merz, the new German chancellor, is the first head of government in the federal republic to…
Ringing Out Hope in Nagasaki
The riddle of Japanese Catholicism has long fascinated me. At the end of World War II, Catholics…
America’s New Grand Strategy
After the Cold War, the United States could imagine that its military was all-powerful. America seemed capable…
The Next Pope Needs a Better China Policy
Reforming the Vatican’s policy on China should be a priority of the next papacy. The current approach…
Europe and America
In 2005, I published a small book entitled The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics…
