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2017
Make America’s Allies Great Again

Trump should learn from the Obama Administration’s mistakes and bet on the friends we already have.

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Island Impasse
Abe’s Russian Dream

Japanese Prime Minister Abe is staking political capital on an accord with Putin, who isn’t particularly interested.

Shalom Auslander (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Showtime)
Ad Men
Selling the Good News

Two television dramas about the advertising business—one recent and the other from the 1980s—show us how much American society has changed.

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2017
Trump: A World Deconstructed?

If the 45th President makes good on his campaign promises, the 46th President will be the one called upon to “make America great again.”

Peter Paul Rubens, St. Ignatius of Loyola
Catholicism
The Jesuit Paradox

Defenders against the enemies of the Church have to get close to those enemies to understand them. This poses a problem.

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2017
Trump’s Middle East Muddle

The Middle East would present a daunting challenge to any incoming President, and Trump has only a limited knowledge of international affairs.

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2017
Trump and the World

The institutional and principled foreign policy of postwar United States will be replaced by a transactional approach. It is an unstable basis for world order.

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Christianity Today
Is The World Becoming Protestant?

Protestantism has an affinity with modernity, giving it considerable reach in today’s age.

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2017
To An Anxious Friend…

Why should history spare our generation, and our children’s, our own distinctive tribulations?

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Pivot to Asia
Who Lost the Philippines?

In today’s global economy, money speaks louder than morals. The next U.S. administration must factor that into its Asia policy.

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