Foreign Affairs
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A Populist Foreign Policy?
Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy.By Eric Alterman.Cornell Univeristy Press. 224 pp. $25.…
Russia Repents?
For anyone watching events in Russia, the confrontation between “reformers,” led by Boris Yeltsin, and their opponents,…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
Canada’s Judicial Captivity
From the confederation of provinces which formed Canada in 1867 until 1982, Canada was a country of…
Rising from the Ashes
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Scribner, 364 pages, $25 Early last November, high in the Catskills, I…
Oh Canada
It was quite by chance that I found myself in Canada on June 2, federal election day.…
Rapture and Renewal in Latin America
At a recent crusade in Argentina, Alberto Mottesi, the Billy Graham of Latin America, thundered to the…
Ukraine: Christians in Conflict
Kiev is a place whose buildings suggest that the time is out of joint. The decrepit concrete…
Post-Communism and Its Discontents
In the exciting days of November 1989, during the occupation strike at Charles University in Prague, the…
Murder in the Sudan
In the mid-1980s, it was Ethiopia. Next, it was Bosnia, then Somalia, and later Rwanda. In each…
Waco: A Massacre and Its Aftermath
Back in the late 1920s the finger of God touched Victor Houteff, and he left the Orthodox…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
The Big Lie Continued
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages,…
Poland: Reflections on a New World
For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…
Homesick in Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…
