More Christians today live in the Global South—Asia, Africa, Latin America—than in the old Christian homelands of Europe and North America. This inevitably means further “Pentecostal drift”.

The path for immigration reform has not only been a twisted one. It has had more stop and go lights than Fifth Avenue from lower Manhattan to Harlem.

American exceptionalism is in retreat, and the centralized national security state is to blame.

The glitter of the Sochi spectacle hides the reality of an empire in decline. Is Putin’s profligacy hastening Russia’s nosedive?

After an unexpected fall, a tentative return to regular blogging.

What the eulogies got wrong about Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The Woody Allen affair teaches us that one of the great challenges of our time is the need to judge absent the solace of absolute knowledge or the illusions of certitude.

Ever since the Georgian Dream coalition’s upset election victory over Mikhail Saakashvili’s UNM, Georgia-Russia relations have been on the mend. But don’t expect the good feelings to last long after the final Olympic delegation leaves Sochi.

Edward Snowden’s exploits have been nothing more than a reckless self-indulgence with disastrous consequences. Those who still hail him as a hero only expose their own naivety about the world we all live in.

Russia’s challenge to the West has been building for a long time, and has reached a crescendo with the crisis in Ukraine. The window is closing, but there is still time to act and tip the balance.