Foreign Affairs

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy

Myron Weiner

India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as…

Suya Wars

Alan Jacobs

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role…

Editorial: The Year that Conservatism Turned Ugly

The Editors

To judge simply by the responses we have received, a good many readers did not like the…

Utopian Passions

David Horowitz

“Workers of the world . . . forgive me.”    —Graffiti on a statue of Karl Marx  Moscow,…

The End of Canadian History?

Mark A. Noll

While the United States has been preoccupied with another Kennedy scandal, the controversies over Clarence Thomas and…

The Church as Interest Group, Once More

Richard John Neuhaus

In the January issue, this section carried a commentary titled “The Catholic Church as Interest Group.” Among…

Coming to Terms with the East German Past

John P. Burgess

It has been more than two years since that fateful Thursday evening in East Berlin. At a…

Salman Rushdie Gets Religion

Alan Jacobs

The protagonist of No Longer At Ease by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is a young man…

Ediorial: Moral Credibility After the Evil Empire: The Witness of IRD

The Editors

We are a month late in noting an anniversary that should not pass unnoted. 1981 witnessed the…

Is Egalitarianism Good for the Jews?

Aaron Wildavsky

Apall hangs over the American debate about equality. It is becoming difficult for people to speak their…

The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”

Jon D. Levenson

Half a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was…

The Myth of the Civil War

Matthew Berke

The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on…

Shooting for Moon

Dean M. Kelley

Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by carlton sherwood regnery gateway, 705…

Reviving the Missionary Mandate

Richard John Neuhaus

The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described…

Aristocrats at Bay

Alan Jacobs

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Yale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95…