A reader sends in this short piece by Catholic activist Peter Wolfgang, who is frustrated by George Weigel's same old same old response to the crisis. Excerpts:
"The speech George Weigel gave the other night? He could have given it 20 years ago. He's one of the leading Christian intellectuals of my lifetime. He sees what's wrong with the world, and he has an idea what we must do about it. But he answers with the view from 30,000 feet in the air, the world as seen from Mount Olympus. He doesn't give those of us on the ground a plan of action."
Wolfgang says that Weigel, along with the late Richard John Neuhaus and Michael Novak, inspired him to go into Catholic activism. But now, he says, Weigel's words are insufficient to the challenges of this time:
