The New and Not-so-new Internationalists
Dennis Hoover Thursday, 1 December 2005
Nothing has done more to challenge the stereotypical dichotomies of contemporary religion and politics—"religious right" vs. "secular left," "blue state" vs. "red state"—than evangelical Protestants' turn toward engagement of global issues. As the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof wrote in 2002, evangelicals are emerging as the "newest internationalists," embracing what are typically regarded as progressive agendas on certain issues of foreign aid and human rights, especially religious freedom. Indeed, Matthew J.O. Scott argues in this issue of The Review that evangelicals may be on the cusp of a kind of "Copernican Revolution" that rejects parochialism in foreign policy attitudes.
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