America cannot orchestrate regime change in Russia. But we must hope for it and entrust Russia’s future to a just Providence whose patience with wicked rulers is not unlimited.
Mark TooleyApril 1, 2022
Living in truth was Václav Havel’s basic answer to the problem of falsehood, one of the defining characteristics of the ideology and regime that ruled Czechoslovakia until 1989.
Lubomir Martin OndrasekMarch 21, 2022
We are told that a policy of firmness must inevitably lead to war, while conciliation could guarantee peace. In the Nazi days this was called appeasement.
Christianity & Crisis Magazine & Reinhold Niebuhr & Mark MeltonMarch 1, 2022
The present need is to deter China and Russia. This is why a “cold war” and a “just war” response is necessary.
J. Daryl CharlesFebruary 25, 2022
In the case of Taiwan, however, disproportionate focus on the Cold War can obscure other historical cases, such as Britain’s commitment to Belgium, that provide useful lessons for preventing geopolitical catastrophe.
Connor PfeifferFebruary 1, 2022
Soviet Russia demonstrated enormously greater fighting ability than has Red China, and yet even that temporarily invincible totalitarian regime is no more.
Mark R. RoyceJanuary 24, 2022
With Ukraine languishing outside the safety of the NATO alliance, the consensus seems to be that there is little the alliance can do as Putin enforces his latter-day Brezhnev Doctrine. That consensus view is wrong.
Alan DowdJanuary 19, 2022
It would be hard to hold this belief and to live up to it, but it may be that only through some such holy act of imagination can we, in all humility, hope to possess the sober serenity called for in these days.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineJanuary 13, 2022
After a tumultuous start to the post-World War II era and before the Cold War fully commenced, the board of supervisors of Christianity and Crisis issued a joint statement in December 1946 that tried to explain a Christian approach to international issues.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineDecember 29, 2021