Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Oh Canada
It was quite by chance that I found myself in Canada on June 2, federal election day.…
Canada’s Judicial Captivity
From the confederation of provinces which formed Canada in 1867 until 1982, Canada was a country of…
Rising from the Ashes
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Scribner, 364 pages, $25 Early last November, high in the Catskills, I…
Rapture and Renewal in Latin America
At a recent crusade in Argentina, Alberto Mottesi, the Billy Graham of Latin America, thundered to the…
Ukraine: Christians in Conflict
Kiev is a place whose buildings suggest that the time is out of joint. The decrepit concrete…
Post-Communism and Its Discontents
In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the…
Murder in the Sudan
In the mid-1980s, it was Ethiopia. Next, it was Bosnia, then Somalia, and later Rwanda. In each…
Waco: A Massacre and Its Aftermath
Back in the late 1920s the finger of God touched Victor Houteff, and he left the Orthodox…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
The Big Lie Continued
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages,…
Poland: Reflections on a New World
For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…
Homesick in Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…
The Betrayal of the French Left
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944–56 by tony judt university of california press, 348 pages, $30 The political…
Human Rights in Vienna
One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human…
After Hell
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America by william b. helmreich…