Europe's two culture wars

Commentary

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 29-36

  Weigel, George ^a  

^a Ethics and Public Policy Center   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; CULTURAL CONFLICT; ISLAMISM; MARRIAGE; MORALITY; RELIGION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646588360     PISSN: 00102601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See my article, "The Cathedral and the Cube: Reflections on European Morale," Commentary, June 2004, and my subsequent book, The Cube and the Cathedral, recently released in a revised paperback edition by Basic Books.
2. A legal struggle ensued when one incubator-mother, who had been impregnated by the seed of a member of a homosexual couple, found a better buyer while the child she had conceived was still gestating, and sold the unborn child to a traditional couple.
3. Doubleday, 248 pp., $23.95.
4. Encounter, 214 pp., $25.95.
5. In another new book, Menace in Europe (Crown Forum, 261 pp., $25.95), Claire Berlinski aptly quotes the French thinker Chantal Delsol on the philosophical origins of today's appeasement mentality in Europe: "Our contemporary cannot imagine for what cause he would sacrifice his life because he does not know what his life means."
6. Basic Books, 159 pp., $22.00. I have contributed a foreword to this book.