Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Loving Ambivalence
The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish…
An Orthodox Fracture With Serious Consequences
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the…
Men of Lawlessness
St. Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians that the Day of the Lord cannot come “unless the…
Conjuring Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin’s poetry notoriously defies translation. Even Vladimir Nabokov made a mighty attempt at bringing Eugene Onegin,…
Europe’s Libyan Battleground
Libya was in the spotlight recently when heavy infighting between militias in Tripoli caused more than fifty…
The Mystery Parenthesis
In advance of Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, I was invited…
Israeli Restoration
On July 9, Israel’s legislature passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.”…
What Bibi and Orban Can Shake On
If a geopolitical observer had predicted a decade ago that Israel and Saudi Arabia would one day…
Poland’s Christian Migrants
Across the West, an electoral backlash against large-scale immigration has contributed to the successes of populist movements…
This Is England
Over the last four weeks, as the England football team made their unlikely journey to the World…
Choosing to Refuse
Sometimes, digesting the latest news of the unhinging of the world, one is tempted to fall into…
Trump in Britain
For many of us here in Great Britain, the supreme moment of President Donald Trump’s visit came…
The Real Modern Anti-Semitism
A Brezhnev-era joke asked whether it was a crime to say that the party chairman was an idiot.…
The Phony War on “Taliban Ireland”
It would be difficult to propose a context in which blasphemy and homemaking might provide fodder for…
Homelands and Social Doctrines
With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican for a synod in October 2001, I decided to…
