Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Cardinal Pell, Scapegoat
Earlier today in Australia, a three-judge panel refused to overturn Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on five counts…
The Australian Disgrace
There will be much more to be said in the weeks and months ahead about the rejection…
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
In late June I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few…
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more…
Cosmopolite Panic
A friend recently wrote to me, informing me we have fallen out over Brexit. He notes in…
Boris Johnson’s Challenge
The advent of Boris Johnson as British prime minister has a feeling of inevitability about it. Theresa…
On the New “Nationalism”
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a…
The Boris Act
The name of Britain’s new prime minister isn’t actually “Boris.” “Boris” is a stage name, jokey and…
Resurrection in Albania
A visit to Albania today reminds the traveler of the worst of modernity and the fall of…
The Quiet Hours of Leonid Brezhnev
On first meeting Dr. Andrzej Grajewski, you probably wouldn’t guess that this mild-mannered Polish historian is one…
Of Vincent Lambert and Ethical Rubicons
Vincent Lambert is dead. The forty-two-year-old Frenchman, who breathed his last yesterday in Reims, didn’t die by…
Herman Wouk, Storyteller
Ten years ago, a friend and colleague suggested that I write “The Great Vatican Novel.” I quickly…
Unalienable Rights and Foreign Policy
On May 30, a surprise notice in the Federal Register roiled the landscape of international human rights…
The London Ideology
London is perhaps the most open city in the world—open to the millions who come for the…
Icons on Ammo Boxes
Throughout the 20th century—the greatest period of martyrdom in history—persecuted Christians used the dross of this world…
