In Pat Moynihan: The Great Catholic “What if . . . ” , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel describes the scholar, writer, and senator’s career and ponders what he, with his great gifts and opportunities, he might have done. Although “one of the five or 10 most influential public intellectuals of the past half-century, a man whose ideas eventually worked themselves into the hard soil of public policy,” he writes, “Pat did virtually nothing about the great civil rights issue of the late 20th century: the defense of the right to life.”
