What Kind of Religion Is Islam? by Alain Besançon Despite wishful thinking by ecumenicist outsiders, the third "religion of the Book" is utterly unlike Christianity and Judaism.
Forgotten Communism by Alain Besançon Why have the crimes of a system at least as monstrous as Nazism faded so quickly from historical memory?
Can Poland Ever Be Free? by Alain Besançon To many observers it seems that over the last year or so Poland has been on the move again, if…
Gorbachev Without Illusions by Alain Besançon In its first three years under Mikhail Gorbachev the Soviet Union has passed through a period of crisis which began…
Modern Ideologies & the Jews by Alain Besançon For Europeans, broadly speaking, the history of Christianity commingles nicely with history-in-general. By contrast, the story of the Jews is…
French Culture in Decline by Alain Besançon I had not paid too much attention to an article by Raymond Sokolov that appeared in the Wall Street Journal…