Believing few other gifts bring the “Merry” to Christmas like a good book, I asked some of our contributors, editors, and friends to recommend top reads.

American strength, martial and moral, helps secure those essential goods for which we are grateful

The Responsibility to Protect owes its greatest debt to a religiously rooted approach to achieving peace with justice, the Christian just war tradition.

The most glaring weakness in the Declaration, by my lights, is the failure to reckon with and address the kingship of Jesus Christ.

Opposition to today’s gender wars cannot be met simply by tradition or chivalry, but from Scripture.

We believe it is our responsibility to speak out at this time in order to provide a much-needed corrective to the current foreign policy debate.

Samuel Moyn’s Christian Human Rights argues that human rights should not be associated exclusively with the secular liberal left and liberal politics when the Christian right was historically involved with this project.

Derek Chollet’s The Long Game defends Obama’s foreign policy and the president’s attempts to project global leadership in an era of infinite demands and finite resources.

This article about how U.S. foreign policy could build relations with Sunni tribes first appeared in Issue 2 (Winter 2016)…

The increasingly frail 41st President of the United States surely deserves a Nobel Prize for Peace for his enlightened and, yes, prudent diplomacy in a dangerous era. Not only did he guide the world toward German reunification, he carefully avoided “dancing on the Berlin Wall.”