Mary Eberstadt

The best defense remains a good offense, and the riven secular world itself, however inadvertently, hands the next pope plenty of moral ammunition. He just has to be willing to use it.

A Georgetown professor who served as ambassador to the United Nations (and who co-founded EPPC and chaired EPPC's board of directors), Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick was a political and intellectual phenomenon like no other. Peter Collier's sprightly and entertaining new biography explores her life and legacy.