In an ever-more globalized economy, a few chokepoints in international trade have become the keys to influencing global politics

What is war? When can going to war be an act of love? And when does refusal to go to war constitute a sin, if ever?

For the sake of a more peaceful Middle East, the Lebanese Armed Forces must reclaim Lebanon from Hezbollah

Despite Pope Leo’s words in Magnifica Humanitas, just war theory will remain necessary so long as human beings are sinful, tyrants exist, and evil regimes oppress their own people while threatening the international order

The idea of a civilization can be used to bind disparate peoples into a shared political project. But in Iran, Turkey, India, and China, civilizational rhetoric increasingly serves to marginalize religious minorities.

The story of Syriac Christians, which history has sadly forgotten as among the first disciples of Christ, is one of political neglect and tragedy, but also of hope for the future

Those of us with personal ties to the Middle East know firsthand that Iran’s apocalyptic, fanatical regime has spent decades sowing chaos across the region, with nuclear weapons serving only to make the situation potentially much worse

Objections to the Iran war that hinge on the absence of an immediate and certain threat overlook that the Islamic Republic has, through decades of proxy warfare and its pursuit of nuclear weapons, consistently sought to kill Americans and destabilize the Middle East

Peter Beinart’s shift to overt anti-Zionism in “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” is more reflective of his intensified desire for validation from critics of Israel’s right to exist more than of fundamental changes in the Israel–Palestine conflict