Despite his attempts to consolidate power in Syria and to transform his image from terrorist to statesman, Ahmed al-Sharaa's government cannot last unless he meets his commitments to pluralism

How can Christians hold in tension being commanded to exhibit universal love irrespective of national boundaries with the need to love the particular families, communities, and nations into which we a...

Trump's pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives

Since 1948, every flare-up of the Israel-Arab conflict has produced a worse situation for the Palestinians. Only a lasting peace settlement that acknowledges Israel's right to exist can stop the cycle...

Without a theological foundation, the idea of intrinsic human rights is incoherent

While people of good faith can disagree about the war in Gaza, the selective outrage towards at Israel betrays the anti-Western ideology underpinning so much of the support for Palestine

The work of a community of Orthodox Christians in the Caucuses to rebuild a ruined cathedral speaks to the broader quest for Western Christians to reconnect with their religious heritage

While spreading democracy may be an admirable goal, the US must be clear-eyed about the costs of promoting American-style government in parts of the world with no history of democracy

Christians should consider themselves “priests of history,” as people living in our own time time, but connected to other Christians and the church across time.

Zelensky has the potential to secure a limited yet viable US commitment in a future war settlement, but only with the right bargaining strategy

This week marks the anniversary of the bloodiest day in American history. In September 1862, at small town in western Maryland, nearly 23,000 young Americans were killed or wounded.

Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order across the Arab world

Christian realists must hold in tension that justice requires returning Ukraine to its pre-invasion borders, but that this may prove to be impossible

Despite his many crimes against the people of Iraq and the Middle East more broadly, Saddam has come to symbolize resistance to the US-led world order

America’s exceptionalism is rooted in its enduring telos: to serve as a moral force for good against evil, protecting the vulnerable and countering tyranny globally

Conservatives must become more attentive to how the use and abuse of the English language shapes politics and culture

Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society

Without the libraries of mind necessary to sustain deep thought, built up over a lifetime of reading, we will never be able to stretch beyond our finitude to a properly-ordered understanding of God an...

As the global threat environment worsens, it is crucial that Americans believe that the founding ideals of their nation are still worth fighting for

In "Teaching the Virtues," David Hein argues that education must be aimed at cultivating the moral imagination necessary for the formation of virtuous citizens

As other Western nations yield to pressure to recognize a Palestinian state, the US must have the courage to stand alone against Hamas's regime of terror

The best way to destabilize Iran's theocratic regime is to support the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom of religion, speech, and assembly

The monsters of this world, whether Khrushchev in 1959 or Putin today, must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are.

The American people understand that Beijing is the problem, not Taiwan, and that alienating allies empowers America’s enemies

American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US's cultural and familial connections with nations around the world

American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US's cultural and familial connections with nations around the world

American adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004, weakening the US's cultural and familial connections with nations around the world

Though surveillance and espionage are necessary elements of national security, without moral guidance on the ends of statecraft they can become ends in themselves

Without the widespread ability to cogently express important ideas, none of the most important leaders of the last few hundred years would ever have been so influential

Human Rights Watch’s legalist, retributive approach to human rights, which focuses on naming, shaming, and prosecuting, is inadequate without political reconciliation or state-building

Novelist of global political thrillers Frederick Forsyth died recently. He was best known for The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, which became popular films in the 1970s. (The Day of the Jackal...

Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge" describes at length the failures of both David Cameron's center-right neoliberalism and Boris Johnson's populism, yet leaves the reader with hope for a renewed po...

Natural law has too long been neglected as a source of moral reasoning by evangelicals. A new book looks to change that.

The Presbyterian Church in America’s new study committee on Christian Nationalism must address questions not only of historicity, but also practicality and relevance in contemporary America

Father Paul Bedari remains an essential figure for understanding the history of Syriac Christians in the 20th century

At first, revolutionary ideologies excuse violence as a sad necessity, before ultimately sacralizing revolutionary violence as an end unto itself

James Diddams and Robert Nicholson interview Redeemer University's Robert Joustra on the role of the apocalypse and the eschaton in fiction as well as international relations

Vance's February Munich speech revealed a deep divide between the American and European conceptions of democracy and individual rights