The Dispatch

On Ukraine

February 23, 2022 George Weigel 44

For months now, the world press has described Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s borders as spearheads of a possible invasion. The truth, however, is that Russia invaded Ukraine seven years ago, when it annexed Crimea […]

Essay

Undercutting Vatican II to defend Vatican II?

February 9, 2022 George Weigel 46

Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions regulating local usage of the Traditional Latin Mass. Those instructions were intended to implement Pope Francis’s 2021 motu […]

Analysis

Russia, Ukraine, and moral reckoning

January 26, 2022 George Weigel 33

There have been vast improvements in the techniques and technology of filmmaking since 1961, when Stanley Kramer made Judgment at Nuremberg. But it’s difficult to imagine any cast today improving on the extraordinary performances of […]

The Dispatch

Who invented the individual?

January 12, 2022 George Weigel 9

A common misconception holds that early “modernity” invented the “individual”: the idea that everyone is a someone with a unique identity independent of family, tribe, racial group, or nation. And from that idea of individuality, […]

The Dispatch

No optimism, much hope

January 5, 2022 George Weigel 17

While history is always full of surprises, including happy ones, I must confess that I’m not full of Pentecostal joy as I consider the next 12 months. World politics are likely to be grim. The […]