Publications

The thrashings in the policy community and the rise of a new isolationism notwithstanding, some people, at least, still think…

During the hardest days of the anti-Communist human-rights resistance, a lot of thought was given to the relationship between truth…

Some of what Havel had to say in his Foreign Affairs article struck me as a bit overwrought. His forebodings…

All that being said, however, President Havel is surely right that “the headaches are never over,” and that the present…

1. In this, the new Best and Brightest were linear descendants of the old Best and Brightest, and particularly of…

There’s only one possible answer: transfer payments to persons who are not employed; “Rueff’s Law” holds up for 70 years….

According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You got to walk…

"In the tradition of John Courtney Murray and Reinhold Niebuhr, George Weigel has become one of the outstanding social critics of our time. This book of his presents a vision of American foreign policy for the 1990s which would reconcile the imperatives of Realpolitik with the moral fervor of the American culture." –Eugene V. Rostow, National Defense University

The holidays are over. No, not just the seasonal celebrations of Hanukkah, Christmas, and the new year, but the vacation…

The prospect of a nuclear-armed North Korea led by the irrational Kim Il-sung or his heirs would have unhappy consequences…

Seeing Russia clearly has never been easy for western Europeans or Americans. There is the sheer size, the raw geographic…

But granting both the magnitude of that reformist task and the grudging minimalism of the Western response to it, one…