William Pfaff, a former editor of Commonweal, was a political columnist for the International Herald Tribune in Paris and author of The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America’s Foreign Policy (Walker & Company). Also by this author Sensational, but Ineffectual Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2004-09-10 issue: View Contents Most Recent A Crisis in Paradise By Núria López Torres and Agus Morales January 18, 2025 Whose Latinos? Which Ones? By César J. Baldelomar January 17, 2025 Prayers for Pacific Palisades By Patrick Whelan January 16, 2025