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Civility, Charity and Truth-Telling
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thoughtful Americans across the spectrum of political opinion are rightly concerned about the degree to which our national politics has degenerated into the manipulation of consumer desires and passions, often by the seductions of the electronic media.  [Read More]
A Disappointing Call for Dialogue
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Genuine dialogue requires a precise focus, and a commitment by the dialogue partners to condemn by name those members of their communities who murder in the name of God. It is unfortunate that "A Common Word" took us no closer to cementing either of these building blocks of genuine dialogue into place.  [Read More]
China's One-Child Self-Destruction
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, November 8, 2007
Because of the One-Child Policy and its skewing effects on the overall Chinese population, "China's age profile will be 'graying' in the decades ahead at a pace almost never before seen in human history." Today, China is young; by 2030, China will be "grayer" than the United States.  [Read More]
Revisiting the Modernist Wars
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Benedict XV began his pontificate by trying to stop the civil war within the Church over Modernism, which his predecessor Pius X had condemned in the 1907 encyclical Pascendi as "the synthesis of all heresies."  [Read More]
Camelot Revisited
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
John F. Kennedy would now be 90 years old -- a circumstance virtually impossible to imagine, for those of us alive on November 22, 1963. When Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets killed the 35th president of the United States, our memories of him were frozen in a kind of memorial amber.  [Read More]
Why Cooking Counts
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
My mentor, as I discovered the theological romance of cooking, was Anglican priest and author Robert Farrar Capon, whose book, The Supper of the Lamb (Modern Library) was aptly described by New York Times food maven Craig Claiborne as "one of the funniest, wisest, and most unorthoox cookbooks ever written."   [Read More]
Poland after John Paul II
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
A new generation of Polish political leaders, formed in the social doctrine of John Paul II, is rising. These men and women know, now, what doesn't work; they have learned the arts of democratic persuasion; they have figured out how to get things done through extensive experience in local government, business, education and public service.  [Read More]
The Holy See and the U.N.
By George Weigel
Posted: Thursday, October 4, 2007
In its July 21 issue The Economist suggested that, "instead of claiming to practice a form of inter-governmental diplomacy," the Holy See ought to "renounce its special diplomatic status and call itself what it is -- the biggest non-governmental organization in the world."  [Read More]
Please Pass the Ontology
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Decades of faux-catechesis, in which the only "indelible marks" to be found in religious education classrooms were made by magic markers on felt banners, have left us severely weakened in our self-understanding, such that too many Catholics imagine their Christianity to be the religious variant of their membership in other voluntary organizations.  [Read More]
Cardinal Lustiger, R.I.P.
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
In the early 1950s, two young men whose names would become familiar throughout the world attended the same political science lectures at the Sorbonne. One was the son of Polish-Jewish parents; the other came from Cambodia. One had lost his mother in Hitler's Holocaust; the other would ignite a holocaust.  [Read More]
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EPPC on Book TV
Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.   


Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.