Publications

Martyrdom Today

George Weigel

As Pope John Paul II has relentlessly reminded the Church for twenty-two years, we live in the greatest age of…

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Syndicated Column / March 8, 2001

Revisiting Franz Werfel

George Weigel

A few months ago, facing a fifteen-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, I called a friend, a distinguished…

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Syndicated Column / March 1, 2001

Blow

James Bowman

If, as I believe, the new media aristocracy is essentially the aristocracy of feeling, then Johnny Depp is the crown…

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Company Man

James Bowman

Bad jokes are like rotten apples: it only takes a few of them to spoil the whole barrel. Company Man,…

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Dish, The

James Bowman

I’m not quite sure how it does it, but the Australian film, The Dish, directed by Rob Sitch, gives the…

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Enemy at the Gates

James Bowman

Enemy at the Gates, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, aspires to the Saving Private Ryan level of spectacle, but offers a…

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Memento

James Bowman

Let it not be said that Memento, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, has nothing to say. On the contrary,…

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Series 7: The Contenders

James Bowman

Time and again Hollywood, wearing its artist’s beret, attempts to satirize the entertainment business, of which Hollywood itself is so…

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Someone Like You

James Bowman

Maybe I’m growing tired and jaded from seeing large numbers of mediocre movies, but more and more I find that…

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Whose Fringe? What Mainstream?

George Weigel

The Ashcroft confirmation hearings in January reinforced the intuition that virtually all American politics since the Cold War has become…

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Syndicated Column / February 22, 2001

Bush the Bold?

Eric Cohen

At the luncheon after George W. Bush’s inauguration, senator Mitch McConnell toasted the new president as an American “Joshua,” whose…

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The Weekly Standard / February 12, 2001

Election Numbers Once More

George Weigel

John Green of the University of Akron may know as much about which Americans vote for which candidates and why…

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Syndicated Column / February 15, 2001