Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel

Europe, America, and Politics without God. Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist 'cube' of the Great Arch of La Defence in Paris with the civilization that produced the 'cathedral' of Notre Dame, Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow and cramped secularism has led to a crisis of civilizational morale that is eroding Europe's soul and failing to create the European future. Can there be any true 'politics' - any true deliberation about the common good and any robust defence of freedom - without God? George Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is 'No'.