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Thursday, April 14, 2005
I've been reading George Weigel's The Cube and the Cathedral, which looks at the real place Europe and the U.S. parted company. It wasn't over Iraq a few years ago. It was over God and man's place in the world and the shift started in earnest with the Great War, World War I. Weigel traces the intellectual origins of the crises back to the time of Aquinas and William of Ockham and lays out an interesting case for how the battle to keep the word "Christianity" out of the EU Constitution tells us more about the US-Europe split than anything said about the respective powers. The purpose of the book, by the way, is to warn against going down Europe's path. I'm about halfway through, but it's fast reading. I should have a full review tomorrow.
posted by gbarto at 11:15 PM
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