Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Church as Interest Group, Once More
In the January issue, this section carried a commentary titled “The Catholic Church as Interest Group.” Among…
Utopian Passions
“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.” —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx Moscow,…
The End of Canadian History?
While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and…
Coming to Terms with the East German Past
It has been more than two years since that fateful Thursday evening in East Berlin. At a…
Salman Rushdie Gets Religion
The protagonist of No Longer At Ease by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is a young man…
Ediorial: Moral Credibility After the Evil Empire: The Witness of IRD
We are a month late in noting an anniversary that should not pass unnoted. 1981 witnessed the…
Is Egalitarianism Good for the Jews?
Apall hangs over the American debate about equality. It is becoming difficult for people to speak their…
The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”
Half a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was…
The Myth of the Civil War
The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on…
Shooting for Moon
Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by carlton sherwood regnery gateway, 705…
Reviving the Missionary Mandate
The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…
Aristocrats at Bay
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Yale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95…
Not the Worst of Times—Or the Best
The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990s by…
1492 and All That
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…
Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…