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Substance Vs. Character

George Weigel

It is now less than a year until the 1988 election, and we therefore end our self-imposed silence on matters…

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Syndicated Column / January 1, 1988

A Seasonal Meditation, with Thanks to William Faulkner

George Weigel

  AMERICAN PURPOSE is not your basic holiday greeting card. But if it were, we would want to use William…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Peace on (Part of) Earth

George Weigel

The Central American peace plan negotiated in August 1987 by the presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Peace on (Another Part of) Earth

George Weigel

The debate over a treaty eliminating medium and short-range (INF) missiles in Europe will surely be another hot item in…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Archbishop Stafforad Oim

George Weigel

  AMERICAN PURPOSE has not been hesitant to criticize those voices in the American religious community whose approach to “work…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Remembering Scoop

George Weigel

What if . . . ? is an endlessly fascinating historical game. What if the Confederacy had won the War…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Religious Liberty in Lithuania

George Weigel

On September 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 400 to 0, HR 192, a resolution…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

In Brief

George Weigel

  SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, INDEED. The Understatement-of-the-Year Award goes to James Le Moyne of the New York Times, whose analysis of…

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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987

Sink the U.N.?

George Weigel

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist of The New Republic, would have been a tough prosecutor had his agile mind…

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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987

Compound Ignorance

George Weigel

In the spring of 1986, a statistically representative sample of 8,000 American 17-year-olds enrolled in U.S. history courses was surveyed…

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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987

Decline and Fall

George Weigel

Max Lerner, the syndicated columnist who began his career on the farther reaches of the American Left in the 1930s,…

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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987

Senator Bradley on the Chautauqua Circuit

George Weigel

At the end of August, Senator Bill Bradley (D-New Jersey) gave a speech to a Chautauqua, New York, conference on…

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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987