Foreign Affairs
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Russian Alchemy
Ours is an ideological age. War, revolution, and terrorism are lit by ideas. Majorities regulate speech and…
Alice’s Oxford
Here comes another atheist children’s book by Philip Pullman, and I bet it would not get half…
Commie Comedy
Comrade Detective, a new Amazon miniseries, is a spoof wrapped in a parody wrapped in a satire.…
The Queen Would Not Be Amused
As one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Canadian subjects, I personally doubt she would approve of the remarks…
Exit Neoliberalism
Exit Westby mohsin hamidriverhead books, 240 pages, $26 In an odd way, Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, Exit…
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s…
The Church in Afghanistan
Fr. Giovanni Scalese is a Barnabite priest and the ecclesiastical superior of the Roman Catholic Mission of…
We Found Our Joy in Latin
Edwin Mary Akaedu walks with a cane in one hand and a rosary in the other as…
An Empty Parliament
My nastier, more vindictive side rather hopes that it will take so long to renovate the British…
In Praise of Borders
Borders are a substitute used by less fortunate lands for the sea and the mountains behind which…
Christianity and the Thucydides Trap
China’s economic growth has been so preposterously huge and fast that statistics sound like a riff from…
Twin Peaks Revisited
In the fall of 1946, Mary McCarthy wrote a letter objecting to a New Yorker essay by…
Shunning the Disabled
Last October, our family realized that we were not welcome in the French Republic. I had always…
Saving Christians from Genocide
Two years after its release, this still photo, taken from an ISIS propaganda video, remains as haunting as…
Recovering a Culture of Affirmation
How to be a European? This question provided the topic for the twelfth annual Vanenburg Meeting, an…
