James George Jatras

Latest by James George Jatras in Chronicles

• Vital Signs

  October 2005

  Grasping the Inexplicable

  The U.S. government has a new official program called “Orthodox Christian World Outreach.” Tens of millions of dollars will be spent to counter distrustful perceptions of the United States in Orthodox countries such as Serbia, Greece, and Russia—perceptions resulting, in part, from our policies with respect to Bosnia and Kosovo.

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  February 2005

  Is There a Khilafah in Your Future?

  Discussions of jihad terrorism and the best defense against it rarely avoid entanglement in the contentious question of the relationship of terrorist actions to Islam as a religion.

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• Vital Signs

  October 2001

  Oriental Fumin'

  It was not what we have come to expectwhen John Paul II arrives in a Christian country—or in any country, for that matter.

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• Reviews

  April 1999

  Feeling Like Russians Again

  "The status of the American Negro is that of an oppressed national minority, and only a Soviet system can solve the question of such minorities," William Z. Foster, long-time chairman of the Communist Party, U.S.A., wrote in his 1932 book, Toward Soviet America.

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  February 1999

  Insurgent Islam and American Collaboration

  The cultural schism between the Western and Eastern halves of European Christian civilization—marked principally by their respective religious traditions, Roman Catholic and Protestant in the West and Orthodox in the East, may or may not prove fatal.

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  June 1998

  Rainbow Fascism at Home and Abroad

  Some years ago, when I was a consular officer in the once-notorious border city of Tijuana, I spent a few days in Mexico City on my way back from a temporary assignment in Matamoros, another border town just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas.

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  June 1997

  Benevolent Global Hegemony

  Every once in a great while, an article appears in a mainstream publication that lets the eat out of the bag, by spelling out ideas that have long been dominant in public life but are usually seen only in vague or implicit form.

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• Vital Signs

  February 1997

  Pravoslavophobia

  One of the shibboleths of contemporary Western thought is multiculturalism: an exaggerated, if condescending, affirmation of the worth of other races and nations, religions and cultures.

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