The Afghanistan Papers suggest that we still have not learned the lessons of history, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., including a sense of humility and an awareness of human fallibility.
Drew Christiansen
Drew Christiansen, S.J., served as the editor in chief of America from 2005 to 2012. He was a Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He was co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown, 2020).
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U.S. support for Israeli settlements could doom a Palestinian state
The Trump administration has reversed a 40-year U.S. policy critical of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., raising the obstacles to Palestinians ever achieving a homeland.
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Daniel Callahan, a pioneer in bioethics, dies at 88
Callahan was an independent scholar working at the frontier where ethics meets medicine, law and religion.
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The problems with Mike Pompeo’s Commission of Unalienable Rights
If the Secretary of State’s new commission is intended neither to review U.S. human rights policy nor examine today’s debates over abortion and same-sex marriage, what, then, might it be doing?
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The West’s debt to Notre Dame
In the wake of the fire, perhaps today’s “cultured despisers” of religion will come to appreciate how devotion to Notre Dame has been a wellspring of Western civilization as we know it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The church does diplomacy
A. Alexander Stummvoll’s new book is crucially important because until now, religion has been “the missing dimension in statecraft.”
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Palestinians protest for the right to return, but to what?
The Gaza Nakba demonstrations this week have done nothing to advance the situation of Palestinian refugees, nor did they provide relief to the people of Gaza, who dwell in an open-air prison, hemmed in and oppressed at every turn.
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Why Israel shaming Iran on nuclear weapons is grimly ironic
Benjamin Netanyahu deserves no hearing on the Iranian agreement until Israel goes public about its own nuclear program.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
It’s bodies against bullets at the Gaza border
Hamas, it seems, has taken Israeli contempt for Palestinian life as a cultural and political weakness that Gazans can turn against the oppressor state.
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Why the Vatican’s potential deal with China is a good thing
Western journalists have been too easily swayed by misleading accounts circulated by those opposed to an entente.