Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Cosmopolitan Dream
The Lure of Technocracyby jürgen habermastranslated by ciaran croninpolity, 200 pages, $22.95 The European project, as it…
Silence of the Churches
Tomorrow, on April 29th, Rome’s white marble Trevi Fountain—its swirling waters and the charging baroque statues of…
After the “G-word” has been spoken
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed…
Euthanasia by Organ Harvesting
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.—Leon Kass The ethics of medicine aren’t what…
Trump and the American Alliance System
The cliché is that Donald Trump says what people think. On foreign policy, that cliché is actually…
A Sordid Anniversary, To Be Remembered
On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox…
Canada Declares War on Christian Doctors and Nurses
Last year, the Canadian Supreme Court created a right to euthanasia and assisted suicide. To qualify for…
The Breath of Mercy
A mother shouldn’t have favorites, but I have often observed that she inclines more to the child…
ISIS, Genocide, and Us
The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my…
Called to Unity
Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana…
The Havana Declaration
For me, the text of the Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill’s joint declaration came as a surprise,…
An Abandoned White Middle Class
Is First Things promoting its own form of identity politics? A friend wrote recently, wondering exactly that.…
China’s Population Crisis: An Evangelical Opportunity?
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been…
Eastern Christmas and Egypt’s President
Egypt’s Coptic Christians follow the Julian calendar in celebrating Christmas on January 7th of each year. For…
What Euthanasia Enthusiasts Really Want
Assisted-suicide advocacy is wrapped in euphemisms and false assurances. We are often told that medicalized killing will…
