Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan’s account of his time in Moscow during and after the invasion of Ukraine is essential reading for understanding the lead-up to Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine

Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Sense of America” captures the political contradictions and controversies that have characterized the last decade as few other books have

Edith Stein and Olga Bida, two Catholic martyrs who perished under Nazi and Soviet rule, remind us today how to live according to the truth that Christ’s Kingdom is not of this world

JD Vance’s approach to Ukraine seems closer to the isolationist realism of the MAGA establishment than the moral realism characteristic of the Catholic international relations tradition

There was nothing benign about the parody of DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” in the Olympics opening ceremony

“In the Courts of Three Popes” by Mary Ann Glendon is an essential work for the recovery and renewal of a coherently Catholic IR theory

Erika Bachiochi’s book “The Rights of Women” is an excellent resource for sex-realist feminism in IR

Vivek Ramaswamy is largely right about America, but fundamentally wrong about Ukraine.