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 Toward Nuclear Disarmament? By The Editors April 1, 2025 Watching Christians Celebrate Killing By David Carroll Cochran April 1, 2025 Where Politics Is Still Possible By Jonathan Malesic March 31, 2025