Foreign Affairs
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RJN: 5.2.06 Last week…
Last week, all week, was Vienna. Which, for readers of this site, had the advantage of a…
Iraq: Then & Now
Even as history continues to unfold”and explode”in ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq War has already proven itself the…
Briefly Noted 4
Defending Human Dignity: John Paull II and Political Realism. By Derek Jeffreys. Brazos. 235 pp. $19.95. Derek…
RJN 1.9.06 Elizabeth Bumiller
Elizabeth Bumiller, in the February 6 issue of the New York Times , reports on a speech…
RJN 2.1.06 According to a report…
According to a report by Reuters, religious leaders on the left are ratcheting up their opposition to…
Europe and Its Discontents
What is the true definition of Europe? Where does it begin, and where does it end? Why,…
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
Extended Conversation
Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by brooke allen ivan r. dee, 244…
Unsettling Canada
Unsettling Canada by Raymond J. De Souza For Canada’s social conservatives, the recent federal election offered cause…
Europe’s Problem—and Ours
Go back in your mind’s eye to the fall of 1940, the fateful period that Winston Churchill…
The Holocaust: What Was Not Said
For decades controversy has raged over the absence of any specific reference to Jews, or to their…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
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
Less than a year after the attack of September 11, Americans have just about succeeded in absorbing…
Hard Thoughts in Wartime
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
Mary Ann Glendon’s latest project is in its way far more ambitious than her previous books about…