Perseus Academic: The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel

From the best-selling biographer of Pope John Paul II, the acclaimed critique of the crisis of secularism that is afflicting Europe and the West. George Weigel raised the profound question of whether there can be any true “politics”—any true deliberation about the common good, and any robust defense of freedom—without God. Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is No-because, in the final analysis, societies and cultures can only be as great as their spiritual aspirations.

George Weigel, a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on religion and public life, is the author of the acclaimed The Courage to Be Catholic, the international bestseller,Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II, and numerous other books that include The Truth of Catholicism and The Final Revolution. Now a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where he holds the John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy, Weigel writes a weekly column, The Catholic Difference, that is syndicated to more than forty newspapers around the United States. He is an NBC consultant on the Vatican and appears regularly on network and cable television programs as well as national and local radio. Weigel lives with his wife and their three children in North Bethesda, Maryland.