Publications
Listening to the Central American Bishops
George Weigel
That American activists and policy makers should “listen to the Church in Central America” is a regular antiphon in public…
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Syndicated Column / November 1, 1987
Antigone Meets Joan of Arc
George Weigel
Contemporary American feminism has never known quite what to do with the war/peace debate. One faction argues that equality requires…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
Peace, Liberty, and Land Reform
George Weigel
During the worst days of the early 1980s’ debate over U.S. policy in El Salvador, Roy Prosterman of the University…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
The New Left, the Old Left, and the Peace Movement
George Weigel
The American Peace Movement-it should go without saying-was profoundly shaped by the Vietnam-era New Left. That the New Left was,…
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1987
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