Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
No Chosen, No “Almost Chosen”
Mazal tov! Partisans on the left and on the right, fighting bitterly for a larger swath of…
Islamists and the Tragedy of Holy Family Church
Three Christians were killed and ten others wounded last Thursday when an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) mortar…
The Perils of Polarization
CRACOW—Adam Michnik was one of the great wordsmiths of the revolution of conscience that began to form…
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM…
Is Just War Theory Still Relevant?
Conflict in the Middle East brings fundamental questions about just war into the public debate. Yet the…
At Home and Abroad
The editors discuss conservatism’s big wins at the Supreme Court and America’s military and diplomatic ventures in the…
Apocalypse Now
I recently spoke to one of Germany’s largest booksellers. His success, including with dissident literature, is based…
Ireland Erases Its Catholic Inheritance
The findings of a recent survey commissioned by Ireland’s Iona Institute for Religion and Society have shed…
The U.K.’s Abortion Reckoning
The U.K. has pushed too far on abortion. On June 17, an amendment to decriminalize abortion for…
Finding Sanctuary in Jerusalem
I arrived in Jerusalem on the evening of June 11, but what was meant to be a…
Touching the Assisted Suicide Void
Eloquent, determined, heedless of personal risk, the British journalist Derek Humphry was a born campaigner. In 1975…
The Moral Logic of Finishing a War
War seldom ends according to a satisfying script. Unconditional surrender—the banner headline of 1945—is a historical rarity,…
The Vatican’s Duty to Armenian Christians
Last month, in one of the first liturgical acts of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV formally took…
Yes, It’s Our War, Too
In late May, Trump administration officials at the highest level, frustrated by what they regard as Vladimir…
Catholic Ireland’s Dead and Gone
One hundred years ago today, W. B. Yeats, poet, senator of the Irish Free State, and proud…
