Publications
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
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