Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christmas at the Top of the World
Shortly before Christmas, I received a phone call from the office of the Air Force Chief of…
A Rallying Point
I first came across First Things at a busy airport newsstand. I was looking for something to alleviate…
The Politics of Scapegoating
The Dying Citizen:How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of Americaby victor davis hansonbasic…
Alexander Riley on Thanksgiving and Civil Religion
In a special holiday episode, editor R. R. Reno is joined by contributing editor Mark Bauerlein and…
Too Blind to Be Martyred
As age catches up with me, my eyes aren’t functioning quite the way I’d like them to.…
Lament for the Nations
Multiculturalism in Canada:Constructing a Model Multiculture with Multicultural Valuesby hugh donald forbes palgrave macmillan, 317 pages, $59.99…
Thirty Years of Poland
It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland…
No SAT, No ACT, No Problem?
The University of California recently dropped the SAT and ACT requirement from the applicant packet. It’s no…
Atheists Against Antiracism
The Elect:Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive Americaby john mcwhorter substack, $5/month Cynical…
What Happens in Germany, Revisited
Writing on the quincentennial of the Reformation and its parallels with emerging problems in the twenty-first-century German…
Modern Restlessness
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Benjamin Storey joins the…
Leavening Liberalism
Peter Leithart’s recent contribution to the failure-of-liberalism genre opens with an arresting claim: “Liberalism is centrally an…
Born and Unborn: Answering Objections to Constitutional Personhood
Are there sufficient reasons for the Court to hold that the unborn are persons within the meaning…
Books, Baseball, and Cool Papa Bell
Where were you thirty years ago, on Opening Day of the 1991 Major League Baseball season? I…
The Lesson of Leaven
About fifteen years ago, on the third or fourth day of Passover, some relatives took me and…
