America's Imperial Burden
Is the Past Prologue?
By Ernest W. Lefever
Posted: Monday, June 1, 1998
On the cusp of a new millennium, are we Americans prepared to accept the imperial burden that history has thrust upon us? Looking back, the author argues that writ large, America, despite its internal flaws and external blunders, has borne its imperial burden with a singular sense of responsibility.   [Read More]

Close Calls
Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense, and 'Just War' Today
Edited by Elliot Abrams, James Turner Johnson
Posted: Monday, June 1, 1998
Just war reasoning attempts to discriminate between defensible and indefensible uses of force. It does not accept “state interest” as an unbeatable trump; it requires that moral distinctions be drawn. Here, in twenty highly readable essays, scholars and expert practitioners draw such distinctions as they ponder some of the hardest questions facing policymakers today. Commentators on the just war tradition itself and on various forms of intervention in other countries provide a wealth of insights into when the use of force is justifiable.   [Read More]

Honor Among Nations
Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy
Edited by Elliot Abrams
Posted: Wednesday, April 1, 1998
Can “intangible” interests such as national honor, morale, and reputation be deemed “vital”? Can they be considered an essential part of a policy that seeks to defend traditional security interests? Donald Kagan begins the discussion with a panoramic view of honor, interest, and the nation-state. William C. Wohlforth looks at Russia’s foreign policy since 1600 and its definition of national interests. Daniel J. Mahoney examines the foreign policy of De Gaulle’s France. And Karl Walling looks into how the early American statesmen—especially Alexander Hamilton—balanced interest and honor. Respondents are Peter W. Rodman, Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., Francis Fukuyama, and Robert Kagan.  [Read More]

Last Rights?
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
Edited by Michael M. Uhlmann
Posted: Wednesday, April 1, 1998
The issue of assisted suicide and euthanasia, so controversial in our own time, was hotly debated both in pagan antiquity and throughout the history of the church. This comprehensive collection of nearly three dozen essays and court cases opens with the editor’s perceptive survey of relevant classical, Christian, and early modern thought. Then writers ranging from Jack Kevorkian to Pope John Paul II, from Peter Singer to Leon Kass, from activists to Supreme Court justices, offer diverse moral, medical, and legal perspectives. A helpful introduction to each section guides readers through the debate.  [Read More]

Great Souls
Six Who Changed the Century
By David Aikman
Posted: Sunday, February 1, 1998
Here are six souls who changed this century for the better . . . gifted leaders who have triumphed over adversity, ridicule, opposition, or mere complacency. David Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine, gives unprecedented biographical information for Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, and Elie Wiesel.  [Read More]

The Irony of Virtue
Ethics and American Power
By Ernest W. Lefever
Posted: Sunday, February 1, 1998
This definitive anthology is the fruit of one of America’s most respected neoconservatives.  Trained in Christian ethics, Ernest Lefever has been an articulate public policy advocate.  Both conservatives and liberals will ignore his views at their peril.  [Read More]

Faith or Fear
How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America
By Elliot Abrams
Posted: Sunday, June 1, 1997
In the midst of the greatest religious expansion in American history, Jews are a shrinking minority. Intermarriage is up, synagogue attendance is down, and Jewish education is flagging. Jewish leaders spend less time instructing the young in religious traditions than in promoting liberal causes and attacking conservative Christians. But as Elliott Abrams contends in this tightly argued, insightful polemic, it is not the Christian Right that most threatens Jews today, but rather their abandonment of Judaism.  [Read More]

A Preserving Grace
Protestants, Catholics, and Natural Law
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Monday, January 27, 1997
A host of questions that surround the notion of natural law are examined and debated by a distinguished group of scholars--Russell Hittinger, Susan Schreiner, Daniel Westberg, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Carl E. Braaten, Timothy George, William Edgar, and Robert P. George.   [Read More]

Soul of the World
Notes on the Future of Public Catholicism
By George Weigel
Posted: Monday, April 15, 1996
What is distinctive about the Church in the world? What does the Church ask of the world, and what should the world expect of the Church? Soul of the World is George Weigel's exploration of the rich theological roots of the public witness of the Roman Catholic Church, especially during the pontificate of John Paul II, whose work has left a decisive imprint on the lives of nations and peoples around the world.  [Read More]

Caesar's Coin Revisited
Christians and the Limits of Government
Edited by Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, April 7, 1996
"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," said Jesus, "and to God the things that are God's." What does this mean in a time and place drastically different from first-century Palestine? As more and more Christians from differing traditions exercise power in the political arena, what theological principles should shape their views of the role of government? Protestant and Catholic scholars of diverse views debate these questions in Caesar's Coin Revisited.   [Read More]