Religious Freedom
Coca-Cola and Interfaith Understanding

If you want to get businesses to support your cause, appeal to their interests rather than moral principles.

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Russia’s Choice: Putinism or Progress

Here are several things Western policymakers can do to help Russia reject the former and choose the latter.

New World Disorder
Putin Ends the Interregnum

Vladimir Putin’s increasingly reckless interventions in Ukraine should force the West to reevaluate everything it thought it knew about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the past two decades of Western policy on Russia.

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Religion and Pluralism
Interreligious Theology?

Though the official guardians of religious tradition have typically looked askance at the idea of interreligious dialogue, the practice of coming to terms intellectually with other faiths has a long and rich history.

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Academentia
A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges

In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas’s war aims.

A Conversation with Tomasz Siemoniak
Back to the Basics Along NATO’s Northeastern Flank

Andrew Michta recently sat down with Poland’s Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak for an extended discussion of the key security challenges facing Europe in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The conversation quickly moved to the larger questions of NATO, EU, Russia, and Polish defense policy.

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Global Futures
Uncharted Territory

A century after World War I’s beginning, many observers wonder whether the U.S. and China are headed down a similar path to great-power war. While we must weigh that prospect seriously, we should not neglect more likely risks to global order.

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Religion and Modernity
Exporting the American Culture War

America’s cultural left and right have globalized the battle over questions of sexuality.

Trust in the 21st Century
The Anti-Statist Alliance That Wasn’t

A burgeoning alliance between social conservatives and civil libertarians to oppose the nanny state might help end some particular abuses, but in the end the two camps want very different things. Their different goals represent two very different understandings of what human beings are and how they should live.

Europe's Anti-Israel Complex
Edinburgh a Sad Symbol of Anti-Israeli Intolerance

Protests targeting an Israeli theater company in Scotland are the latest examples of the increasingly uncomfortable position of Jews across Europe.

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