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George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Ike’s Insight

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It takes a critical mass of citizens, living by certain virtues and the convictions that undergird them, to make a democracy work so that the result is individual human flourishing and social solidarity. Continue Reading »

What Ukraine Means

From the May 2023 Print Edition

On February 24, 2022, something considered so unlikely in the twenty-first century as to be almost unimaginable happened: A large ­European state mounted a full-scale, full-­spectrum invasion of another large European state. The invaded state posed no threat to the aggressor’s security, only to . . . . Continue Reading »