Publications
On Getting Involved
George Weigel
It is no longer a curiosity these days for a county medical society in the midst of discussing its professional…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
Take Him Out to the Ball Game
George Weigel
As we celebrate the 1987 World Series amidst continuing debate over Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost, we recall from earlier…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
Switzerland at the Cape of Good Hope?
George Weigel
In South Africa, a book that sells 5,000 copies is thought a considerable success. Since March 1986, sales of South…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
We note the following bit of cross-cultural news, reported in the Baltimore Sun: When the Soviet Union launched a Syrian…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
America and the World
George Weigel
The bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States affords us the opportunity to reflect on many things: the “miracle…
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Syndicated Column / September 1, 1987
Calhoun’s Heir, or the Balkanization of American Foreign Policy
George Weigel
Of the possible arguments that the bicentennial of the Constitution might have engendered, perhaps one of the least likely is…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
The Struggle for the Catholic Human Rights Revloution
George Weigel
That the Catholic Church, in the United States and indeed throughout the world, has become a major factor in shaping…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
On His Mind
George Weigel
When A. M. Rosenthal retired some months back as executive editor of the New York Times, William F. Buckley, Jr.’s…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
The Moral Case for Democracy
George Weigel
As noted in the May/June 1987 issue of AMERICAN PURPOSE, a grant to the James Madison Foundation from the United…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
Dr. Anatoly Koryagin, the psychiatrist released from the gulag several months ago, is what North African Christianity in the third…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
Idealism Without Illusions
George Weigel
Shortly before they were married, or so the story goes, Jacqueline Bouvier asked Senator John F. Kennedy how he would…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987