Essays & Dispatches

The American Conservative

American Orphans

Amid cruel nature and primitive violence, the American sense of liberty took form, second sons forged new destinies or perished, fallen men were made anew.

Read More

The Wall Street Journal

Everything in Lebanon is different.

The American Conservative

The Islamic world needs Avicenna, not America. Revisiting a prescient magazine piece from 2014.

National Review

With a new and familiar monk

The European Conservative

Humanity evolved beyond the violence of the pagan world because of Hebraic ethics, universalized by the Abrahamic faiths. 

National Review

They are a moderating force in the region, like the Jews before them and the secular Muslims who fear they might be next.

The European Conservative

For Aggie Madaras Kuperman, the question of her own life’s meaning was bound up with her father.

National Review

Sunnis backing Assad are the best defense against al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria.

The American Conservative

In 1983, a suicide bombing was the last thing the Marines in Beirut expected. Forty years later, a survivor remembers the shock.

First Things

Richard Lamar Ochiltree wandered the streets of Washington, D.C., for several years, mostly along a few blocks in Foggy Bottom, near the eastern shore of the Potomac.

First Things

As conflict raged in northern Syria, two professors, one Lebanese and the other American, both from elite universities in the Washington, D.C. area, passed the long night in Amman, Jordan, drinking tea.

First Things

No serious person is without contradictions. The test lies in the willingness or ability to recognize and confront them.

The American Interest

In the spring of 2012, a State Department consultant sat at a bar on Capitol Hill watching a baseball game. Across the bar, a young, boisterous American woman solicited funds, so she claimed, for the rebels in Syria. 

CNN

Safaa Elias Jajo, a Chaldean man in his 40s, stands in the wreckage of a home in Telskuf in Iraq’s Nineveh province. The home served as ISIS headquarters in this area until a U.S.-led coalition airstrike leveled it.

The National Interest

The Washington elites are inured against the cries of the people.

The National Interest

Great power competition requires visionary spirits, courageous persons who venture into unknown lands on behalf of their country, with confidence in the civilization that produced them.

The National Review

The ghosts of America’s missionary-diplomats haunt campus protests, Europe’s streets, and the Middle East.

Mosaic Magazine

In a world teeming with violent anti-Semitism, Catholics ought to draw inspiration from the Jewish people and stand together.

The European Conservative

The monstrosities in Israel crowd out moral ambivalence, but there are those whose bloodlust was merely whetted. 


Foreign Policy

Former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt understood the Soviet Union was an ally unworthy of the United States, but he also understood Nazism was the more pressing threat to civilization.

The Wall Street Journal

It begins with the Jews but never ends with them. Their problems are our problems too.

The American Conservative

In January 1439 the streets of Florence teemed with onlookers. A procession from the East had arrived for a Council of the Church.

Copyright © Andrew Doran 2024

Scroll to Top