Foreign Affairs
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Britain’s Baby Burning
The British public is currently being scandalized by the revelations that hospitals there have been incinerating the…
Professor Grayson’s Crusade
J Paul Grayson, a sociology professor at York University in Toronto, received a request from a male…
First Buds of the Church
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are over now, but the melodies linger on—not only for those who…
God Save the Queen
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
While We’re At It
• Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is said to have a…
While We’re At It
• Remember the alliance of atheists who offered to take care of your pets in the event…
The Solidarity Difference
Thirty years ago, on Aug. 31, 1980, an electrician named Lech Walesa signed the Gdansk Accords, ending…
Review of Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr.
Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr. edited by William F. Meehan III University Press of Mississippi, 208…
Review of A New History of Early Christianity
Within a few paragraphs the perspicacious reader of this “new” history of early Christianity will sense that…
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ)
I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but…
A Level Praying Field
Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought by Joshua A. Berman Oxford University Press,…
The Transformation of Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland. For many people outside the British Isles, that name evokes images of shootings, bomb…
The Tears of Abraham
In his meditation on the sources of human community, “ Death and Politics ,” Jody Bottum makes…
Realigning Jewish Peoplehood
On July 22, 2007, the New York Times ran an article by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman…