Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Holy See, China, and Evangelization
In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain…
Freedom Is Never Free
When I first visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine, in 2002, the transportation from plane…
Decline and Fall of the BBC
Click, and off it goes into the electronic void. For the third time this year I have…
A Diagnosis of Moralosis
An odd thing happened in Ireland on Easter Sunday. A politician, a senator who had been chairperson of…
Check the Box and Take the Cash
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is well over halfway through its statutory four-year mandate, and the prime minister…
Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin
The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in…
Xi Jinping’s Village
In Liangjiahe, a small village in central China, visitors can tour the sites that formed Xi Jinping.…
The Heroism of Arnaud Beltrame
On March 23 in the French town of Trèbes, an ISIS attacker entered a supermarket, killed two…
Memory, Identity, and Patriotism
The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning, benefited…
Italy’s Rebellion
Identity, tradition, and religion have new prominence in Italy after the recent election. The Northern League, once…
Learning from the White Rose
Seventy-five years ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by…
Jokers and “Xenophobes”
One of the most infuriating things to happen to journalism in the era of internet media and…
Poland’s Baby Bump
In 2015, Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party proposed a plan called “500+ Families,” which would give…
Eternal Rome
I was fifteen when I first saw Rome. One of my mother’s sisters had invited me to…
Canada’s Pro-Abortion Politics
In December 2017, Canada’s Liberal Party government, headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, barred organizations that oppose…
