Foreign Affairs
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Human Dignity Redefined
In revolutionary countries you expect to find desecration: churches turned into lavatories or reformatories, their sanctuaries wrecked…
Houellebecq and the Death of Europe
Serotonin: A Novelby michel houellebecqfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 Europe is old, decrepit, and suffering…
Brexit and Britain’s Collapse
It looks like the dust will soon settle in British politics, and when it does we will…
Canada’s Toxic Nationalism
The rise of nationalist discourse in American public life has generated a fierce riposte. According to its…
Israel’s Political Mythology
Israel may be the land of the Hebrew Bible, but few expected the leader of Israel’s Arab…
A New Saint on St. Stephen’s Green
Ireland has produced many saints, and John Henry Newman is the latest. Newman was not Irish, of…
What Kind of “Believers”?
This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on…
A German Attack on Christ’s Lordship
Half a millennium after the Reformation, Germans are making trouble again for the Roman Church. This time,…
Britain’s Constitutional Crisis
The United Kingdom has a constitutional crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a minority Conservative government that…
The Judicial Usurpation of Parliament
Far too often nowadays I have that disturbing feeling of walking on a thin crust suspended over…
Hitler the Progressive
Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…
Australian Justice in the Dock
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…
Prosperity Breeds Idiots
At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave…
The Fate of Hong Kong’s Christians
Christians in Hong Kong overwhelmingly support the mass protests that have disrupted the region for the last…
The Polish Heroes of World War II
Sunday marks the eightieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. On September 1, 1939, Poland…