Monthly Archives: August, 2009

Some Cold War truths

George Weigel - September 30, 2009 0

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev transferred the Soviet nuclear codes to Boris Yeltsin, called President George H.W. Bush to wish him a happy...

Job revisited: notes of an Orioles fan

George Weigel - September 23, 2009 0

On Oct. 4, the Baltimore Orioles will take the field at Camden Yards against the Toronto Blue Jays and, win or lose, complete their...

The death of Edward Kennedy and the end of an era

George Weigel - September 16, 2009 0

The public accomplishments of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died on Aug. 25, will be discussed and debated for years, and perhaps decades. He...

Faith and reason, irrationality and terror

George Weigel - September 2, 2009 0

The media’s obsession with salvation-through-latex in the matter of AIDS prevention in Africa so dominated the coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s March pilgrimage to...