Publications
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
The Struggle for the Catholic Human Rights Revloution
George Weigel
That the Catholic Church, in the United States and indeed throughout the world, has become a major factor in shaping…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
On His Mind
George Weigel
When A. M. Rosenthal retired some months back as executive editor of the New York Times, William F. Buckley, Jr.’s…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
The Moral Case for Democracy
George Weigel
As noted in the May/June 1987 issue of AMERICAN PURPOSE, a grant to the James Madison Foundation from the United…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
Dr. Anatoly Koryagin, the psychiatrist released from the gulag several months ago, is what North African Christianity in the third…
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Syndicated Column / July 1, 1987
Idealism Without Illusions
George Weigel
Shortly before they were married, or so the story goes, Jacqueline Bouvier asked Senator John F. Kennedy how he would…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
Nuclear Denial
George Weigel
Psychologists call it the “Stockholm syndrome, “after the hostages in a Swedish bank robbery some years ago who began, over…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
Stubborn, Those Americans
George Weigel
Speaking of “Amerika,” and we promise that this is absolutely the last time we’ll speak of “Amerika,” were Dr. John…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987
Ethics, War, and Peace
George Weigel
At its November 1986 meeting, the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace awarded a grant of…
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 1987