The Nobel Peace Prize has just been rewarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to the Nobel Committee, the prize was not only given to the group for “its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons," but also "for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” In announcing Nihon Hidankyo as the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Nobel Committee credited the group for "contributing greatly to the establishment of the nuclear taboo"; that is, that "no nuclear weapon has been used in war in nearly 80 years."

In no way do I mean to demean atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and .........

Last week, in his speech at the Sant'Egidio International Meeting for Peace, which was held in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "new international order." According to Macron, a new order is needed to maintain peace around the world, because "our order today is incomplete and unjust." The war in Ukraine, Macron alleges, necessitates a "new form of organization of Europe" and that the European community "rethink" its "relationship to Russia."

The wise King Solomon observed in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that there is nothing new under the sun. There is certainly nothing new about Macron's call for a new world order; after all, an American President, George H. Bush, .........