Publications

A Troublesome Declaration

George Weigel

That staying power derived in part from the follies committed by Eleanor Roosevelt when she led the drafting of the…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

An American Argument, a European Revolution

George Weigel

These definitional arguments—and the ways in which they were manipulated by dictators of all stripes (but pre-eminently by Communists and…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

The Bangkok Conspirators

George Weigel

The bad guys at Vienna were not exactly shy about what they were up to. Two months before the Vienna…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

Getting It Less-Than-Half Right

George Weigel

The Bangkok Declaration was, among other things, a gauntlet thrown down before the Clinton administration. The Vienna Conference would be…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

The Vienna Declaration

George Weigel

The Vienna Declaration of the World Conference on Human Rights is not reading material for the faint of heart or…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

The Dogs That Didn’t Bark

George Weigel

The most important part of the Vienna Declaration is Part II, the statement of principles. And the key to grasping…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

The Indictment

George Weigel

Some examples will help establish this point. Paragraph 3 of the Vienna Declaration’s statement of principles reads: “All human rights…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

Boondoggles

George Weigel

The Vienna Declaration’s action plan also in; eluded a couple of dubious proposals for expanding the U.N. human rights bureaucracy….

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

The Necessity of Hardball

George Weigel

Although the Clinton administration has claimed great success at the Vienna conference, its more candid members are likely to argue,…

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Syndicated Column / August 1, 1993

Why Devalue?

John Mueller

Almost all industrial countries today are suffering from permanent unemployment, and most are suffering from currency instability. The two problems…

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Hawks and Doves Revisited

George Weigel

  The Bridge on the Drina, which won its Bosnian Serb author, Ivo Andric, the 1961 Nobel Literature Prize, should…

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Syndicated Column / June 1, 1993

The Communist Hangover

George Weigel

No small part of the West’s confusion and consternation over the tribulations of post-communist societies is the result of a…

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Syndicated Column / June 1, 1993