If the open-air killing of a clergyman by an Islamist doesn’t prompt a reckoning, it’s hard to see what will.

A Pulitzer-prize winner chronicles Oswaldo Payá’s lifelong struggle to bring democracy to Cuba.

Jesus Christ died unlike he had lived: politically. D. L. Dusenbury urges us to reassess the gospels.

A year out from a general election in Spain and the political vitriol is running high.

The EU’s business model has been to put the age-old laws of politics to the test, argues Stefan Auer in his latest book. To survive, it needs to heed them instead.

In France, Jews and Arabs have been drifting apart over the past 50 years. A Paris exhibition commissioned by one of the country’s leading historians hoped to build bridges.

Reagan’s election would be the ultimate test of the so-called Evans’ law: “whenever one of our people reaches a position of power where he can do us some good, he ceases to be one of our people.”

Oriental Jews may well have been discriminated against throughout Israel’s early decades, but Michale Boganim’s latest documentary vastly exaggerates their current plight.

Continetti’s history of the first hundred years of the American right holds lessons for the next hundred.

Emmanuel Macron’s invocations of “European sovereignty” notwithstanding, the nation—not Europe, nor the entire world—remains the only viable locus for the exercise of democratic power.

Only by rediscovering a vision of the good life that reckons with the suffering inherent in human experience and conceives of individuals as social animals bound by duty to one another—Edmund Burke’s “partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn”—do we stand a chance of bending the rising generation’s egotism and make them want to grace their communities and nations with new human beings.

In Western Europe, meanwhile, our globalized, post-national era of peace and prosperity has wrought decadence and complacency. It has erased from the national consciousness the blood and tears needed to get independence and to keep it.