Foreign Affairs

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Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

Paul Seaton

The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…

Watching George Pell

Philippa Martyr

Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…

Bearing Witness from Prison in Indonesia

Bob Osburn

He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia’s most powerful…

Never Mind Le Pen and Macron

John Rogove

Never mind Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron: The real story of the French presidential race was…

The Nationalism Muddle

Pete Spiliakos

When it comes to understanding the divides within the right, I think that some of the labels…

No Apology for Nostalgia

Jen Pollock Michel

Is there any dirtier word than “nostalgia”? The problems with a politics of nostalgia are widely recognized.…

Goodbye, Left and Right

R. R. Reno

Flagged down on his way to the polls in a ritzy part of Paris, a French voter…

The Land of Athanasius and its Lessons

Charles J. Chaput

The visit of Pope Francis to Egypt last week (April 28-29) was an act of personal courage,…

France is a Broken Country

Samuel Gregg

The results of the first round of France’s 2017 presidential election have predictably been portrayed as embodying…

Anti-Christianity in France

Jean Duchesne

On the day after François Fillon’s victory in the Republican primary in France last November, the leftist…

Evolving Toward Africa

Peter J. Leithart

We Westerners know how modernization works. Light dawns in the north and west and spreads Reason and…

The Papal View from the Global South

Paul Seaton

This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justiceby andrea tornielli and giacomo galeazzi, trans. by…

Struggle Against the Gods

Gao Zhisheng

Because of my legal work on behalf of groups persecuted by the Chinese government, I have been…

How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?

James R. Rogers

How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: “Does the welfare of…

The Bishop and the Nazis

Daniel Utrecht

Count Clemens August von Galen, a member of an old aristocratic family, was consecrated Bishop of Münster…