The Marshall Plan exemplified the alignment of values and interests good foreign policy should embody.

Remarks delivered by Eric Patterson at Catholic University of America on Sept. 13th, 2022 on HR 1009.

Jefferson’s vision of freedom of religion continues to challenge Americans to strive for freedom at home and champion for others abroad

As the Sun sets on 2022 and rises on ’23, what are we to make of another annum come and gone?

The Christmas truce provides hope that there is a peace beyond the ugliness of warfare and sorrow.

The Rise of Violent, Revolutionary Ideology in the 20th Century and its Christian Realist Tonic.

Wishful Thinking Idealism, unlike Christian Realism, believes that everyone, even competition, is fundamentally reasonable.

Human societies do not “fall into” a libertarian peace, nor do they self-organize at the grass-roots level into peaceful communes. No, they fall into anarchy, which is an open invitation to tyranny.

The Uighurs would be in a very different situation if we could get Middle Eastern governments to restrict the flow of oil to China or if South Asian governments would say no to China’s tempting low-interest infrastructure projects.

Two recently held major international conferences brought together thousands of religious freedom advocates and government officials to cooperate in taking concrete action to end religious persecution.