Foreign Affairs
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Sweden on the Edge
Sweden is facing a crisis of violence. On February 5, thirty-five-year-old Rickard Andersson, an ethnic Swede, walked…
Just War Principles in Ukraine
Representatives of the U.S. and Russian governments are meeting in Saudi Arabia as I write. Their goal…
Mr. Merz, Tear Down This Firewall
The evening before the German parliamentary elections, I saw a young man drop his empty beverage can…
Pope Francis and “Selective Indignation”
Last month, the chief rabbi of Rome accused Pope Francis of “selective indignation” in his comments about…
The Communist Origins of Europe’s “Hate Speech” Crisis
Following Vice President JD Vance’s groundbreaking speech at the Munich Security Conference, the world is awakening to…
The Age of De-Globalization
Annex Greenland! Take back the Panama Canal! Canada as the fifty-first state! Speaking at an early January…
Merkelʼs Country
German readers have a powerful appetite for doorstop political autobiographies, gossip-filled 600- and 700-page apologias by major…
Germany Needs to Bury Hitler
On February 14, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the vice president of the United States warned…
How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation
Elon Musk did the world a service by bringing the U.K.’s darkest crimes to light. The “grooming…
Russia’s Sacrilegious War on Ukraine
Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix…
Manners, Methods, and Greatness
Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a…
China, DeepSeek, and American Complacency
History is a heartless teacher. Three hundred years before Christ, Carthage was a prosperous commercial empire dominating…
Roger Scruton’s The Disappeared, Revisited
“It was inconceivable that in a town dedicated to prosperity, comfort and English order, a girl might…
It’s Good That You’re Alive
Our desire is to obtain legal recognition for the principle that in cases of advanced and inevitably…
The End of Trudeau’s Pseudo-Caesarism
When Barack Obama first won the presidency in 2008, he ushered in a distinctive left-liberal aesthetic of…