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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

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

A Subsidy for Motherhood: Why I Now Support Social Security

John D. Mueller

What first attracted G.K. Chesterton to Christian orthodoxy, he remarked, was that “it was attacked on all sides and for…

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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