EPPC’s latest work renewing culture.
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March 22, 2024
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** The Soft Tyranny of Smartphones
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Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell
National Affairs
When Apple unveiled the first iPhone in January 2007, most ordinary consumers rolled their eyes — "why would I need a phone to do all that?" Before long, however, Americans were buying smartphones in droves. By 2013, smartphones had overtaken "dumb phones" in global market share for the first time; they have never looked back.
Initially, the great attraction of smartphones was their ability to combine standard call and text features with access to every corner of the digital world in one convenient, handheld device. Email, online shopping, YouTube, you name it — anything you wanted to do on the internet, you could now do from your phone. Smartphones also came with built-in cameras, obviating the need to carry around a digital camera and enabling users to seamlessly upload and share pictures with one another.
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** EPPC Celebrates Ed Whelan’s 20 Years
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March 22, 2024 marks Ed Whelan ([link removed]) ’s 20^th anniversary at EPPC. Ed joined EPPC as its President in March 2004 and served in that capacity until 2021. On stepping down as President, he was named EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow and was awarded EPPC’s new Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies ([link removed]) .
EPPC President Ryan Anderson hailed Ed’s twenty years at EPPC:
Ed Whelan’s tenure at EPPC is nothing short of remarkable. No one is a more reliable or sought-after Court watcher and commentator than Ed. His work directly resulted in the reshaping of the composition of our judiciary, with the overturning of Roe as perhaps his crowning accomplishment. He did all of this while for seventeen years he led EPPC as president. Taking EPPC from strength to strength, he built the institution with the best thinkers on the social and moral questions confronting our nation, garnering EPPC the rich reputation it rightly deserves.
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EPPC seeks a full-time Director of Finance and Administration. Talent Market is managing the search on behalf of EPPC.
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Francis X. Maier is profiled by the National Catholic Register ([link removed]) on his "unflinching determination to tell the truth" in his new book.
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Carrie Gress writes for The Catholic Thing about laughter as a sign of family and community ([link removed]) .
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And for The American Spectator, Carrie writes about how feminism shattered our understanding of motherhood ([link removed]) .
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For his Substack, Ronen Shoval writes about the legacy of ([link removed]) Roger Scruton ([link removed]) .
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In his column this week, George Weigel decries the antisemitism of referring to Jesus as a "Palestinian." ([link removed])
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Carl Trueman writes for First Things about the cowardice of the Church of England ([link removed]) .
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April 11, 2024
Grove City College
George Weigel, and Carl R. Trueman, and Devorah Goldman will speak at the "Confronting Antisemitism" conference hosted by the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College on April 11.
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** The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
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April 22, 2024 | 1 pm
American Enterprise Institute
1789 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Ryan T. Anderson, George Weigel, and Patrick Brown will speak at a conference on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus and Peter L. Berger’s To Empower People at the American Enterprise Institute on April 22.
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