Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Catholic Church’s German Crisis
The twenty-first-century Church owes a lot to twentieth-century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the…
A New Christian Zionism
Critics of Christian Zionism usually dismiss it for one or more of three reasons: (1) They say…
China’s New Consumerism
On a chilly afternoon last October, as my son and I walked through a bustling shopping district…
The Hero of Hungary
Today, we mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, a courageous Hungarian prelate…
The Mantle of Elijah
Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise—Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois…
Teach Us to Pray
Christians have watched in helpless horror at the release of videos of masked ISIS warriors shooting and…
When We Cared
Today, we mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April 24th, 1915, the nationalist Young…
Confession and the Armenian Genocide
My grandmother often talked about her father’s crucifixion to my mother and my aunt. Today my aunt…
A Genocide Remembered and Denied
On the night of April 24, 1915, as Constantinople’s Armenian community was deep in slumber following Easter…
“Wolf Hall” and Upmarket Anti-Catholicism
Wolf Hall, the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS’s…
Can Politicians Responsibly Discuss the Risks of War?
Will the 2016 election be about foreign policy? And, if it is, can non-interventionist conservatives win that…
Incoherence, Petulance, and Obama’s Middle East Policy
The Obama administration’s Middle East policy is becoming something worse than a failure. It is turning into…
St. John Paul II and the “Tyranny of the Possible”
The reputations of the great often diminish over time. Ten years after his holy death on April…
When Africa Bleeds
Seldom in recent memory has the Western world seemed more united than on January 11, 2015, when…
Ukraine: Disinformation and Confusion
Two recent interviews in the National Catholic Register suggest that there’s considerable confusion about what’s what in Ukraine. Those…
