Publications
The Bangkok Conspirators
George Weigel
The bad guys at Vienna were not exactly shy about what they were up to. Two months before the Vienna…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
Getting It Less-Than-Half Right
George Weigel
The Bangkok Declaration was, among other things, a gauntlet thrown down before the Clinton administration. The Vienna Conference would be…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
The Vienna Declaration
George Weigel
The Vienna Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights is not reading material for the faint of heart or…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
The Dogs That Didn’t Bark
George Weigel
The most important part of the Vienna Declaration is Part II, the statement of principles. And the key to grasping…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
The Indictment
George Weigel
Some examples will help establish this point. Paragraph 3 of the Vienna Declaration’s statement of principles reads: “All human rights…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
Boondoggles
George Weigel
The Vienna Declaration’s action plan also in; eluded a couple of dubious proposals for expanding the U.N. human rights bureaucracy….
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
The Necessity of Hardball
George Weigel
Although the Clinton administration has claimed great success at the Vienna conference, its more candid members are likely to argue,…
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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993
Hawks and Doves Revisited
George Weigel
The Bridge on the Drina, which won its Bosnian Serb author, Ivo Andric, the 1961 Nobel Literature Prize, should…
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Syndicated Column / June 1, 1993
The Communist Hangover
George Weigel
No small part of the West’s confusion and consternation over the tribulations of post-communist societies is the result of a…
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Syndicated Column / June 1, 1993
The Pusillanimous West
George Weigel
Has Western Europe entered a period of political decadence such that it cannot even police its own neighborhood? The question…
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Syndicated Column / June 1, 1993