Publications
Remembering Scoop
George Weigel
What if . . . ? is an endlessly fascinating historical game. What if the Confederacy had won the War…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
Religious Liberty in Lithuania
George Weigel
On September 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 400 to 0, HR 192, a resolution…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
In Brief
George Weigel
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, INDEED. The Understatement-of-the-Year Award goes to James Le Moyne of the New York Times, whose analysis of…
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Syndicated Column / December 1, 1987
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