Foreign Affairs

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RJN: 5.2.06 Last week…

Richard John Neuhaus

Last week, all week, was Vienna. Which, for readers of this site, had the advantage of a…

Iraq: Then & Now

George Weigel

Even as history continues to unfold”and explode”in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the…

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Defending Human Dignity: John Paull II and Political Realism. By Derek Jeffreys. Brazos. 235 pp. $19.95. Derek…

RJN 1.9.06 Elizabeth Bumiller

Richard John Neuhaus

Elizabeth Bumiller, in the February 6 issue of the New York Times , reports on a speech…

RJN 2.1.06 According to a report…

Richard John Neuhaus

According to a report by Reuters, religious leaders on the left are ratcheting up their opposition to…

Europe and Its Discontents

Pope Benedict XVI

What is the true definition of Europe? Where does it begin, and where does it end? Why,…

God & Bertie Wooster

Joseph Bottum

Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…

Extended Conversation

J.A. Gray

Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by brooke allen ivan r. dee, 244…

Unsettling Canada

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

Unsettling Canada by Raymond J. De Souza For Canada’s social conservatives, the recent federal election offered cause…

Europe’s Problem—and Ours

George Weigel

Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…

The Holocaust: What Was Not Said

Martin Rhonheimer

For decades controversy has raged over the absence of any specific reference to Jews, or to their…

Moral Clarity in a Time of War

George Weigel

In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power

Andrew J. Bacevich

Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…

Hard Thoughts in Wartime

James Nuechterlein

November 21, 2001. As of this date, the American war against terrorism is going better than almost…

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Elliott Abrams

Mary Ann Glendon’s latest project is in its way far more ambitious than her previous books about…