EPPC’s latest work renewing culture

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June 7, 2024
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** The Cultural Roots of Our Demographic Ennui
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** Choosing to do hard things—to start a family, have kids, invest in local institutions, and put others before ourselves—requires a formation in values that lie outside the market.
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** Patrick T. Brown, Public Discourse
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At times, it may feel like we’re living in P. D. James’s The Children of Men, but the Right Honorable Baroness might have gotten one thing wrong. Her story of a global epidemic of infertility finds the world caught in paroxysms of terrorism, xenophobia, and violent authoritarianism. But the soundtrack of a world without a future may turn out to be less the explosion of a pipe bomb ([link removed]) in downtown London than the cool hiss of a suicide pod ([link removed]) .

The rest of this century will feature every major nation seeking to manage population decline ([link removed]) —a recipe for aversion to wasting precious warm bodies on the field of battle. Revolution and violence have a certain appeal to the young and dispossessed, but an older society with money in the bank has more to lose. Aging comfortably, rather than exerting power, will be the order of the day. And the back half of the twenty-first century may resemble less a rage against the dying of the light than an emotionless flip of the switch.
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** EPPC Is Hiring
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We seek a full-time Director of Communications to ensure that our scholars become and remain well-prepared, sought-after experts who appear across the full range of media channels. The position may be located either in EPPC’s Washington, DC, office or remotely with regular visits to Washington. Talent Market is managing the search.
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** EPPC Scholars Address Graduates
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George Weigel at St. Thomas More Academy, in Raleigh, North Carolina:

“Living into the future according to that one great question—‘What is God asking of me now?’—is the greatest of adventures. And it will prepare you for the greatest, most tremendous adventure of all, which is eternal life in the light and love of God the Holy Trinity.”
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Noelle Mering at the Willows Academy in Des Plaines, Illinois:

“The Church invites us to counter this temptation through our daily examination of conscience, through weekly confession, through the mea culpa in the Mass. To struggle against our weaknesses not to succumb to them. Our Lord invites us to return to him again and again, and to feel the humility and nobility inherent in being entrusted with so great a project as personal holiness and the renewal of the culture.”
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Brad Littlejohn at New Covenant School in Anderson, South Carolina:

“It is not enough to pay close attention to the world, if you are only ever looking at one side of it. You will never attain to wisdom if you do not find a few fellow pilgrims who are equally committed to giving truthful, patient, attention to the world, and who will see elements that you are sure to miss.”
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Alexandra DeSanctis at the Mount Academy in Esopus, New York:

“So much of this confusion is caused by no longer knowing or believing that we were created by God and are loved by Him unconditionally. And so we witness our peers struggle to craft a life of meaning out of these identities and beliefs that will never truly satisfy. They will always be searching for more, for something to satisfy the longing of their hearts to know who they are and where they are going.”
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For World, Carl R. Trueman writes that Christians must offer a positive vision to those harmed by LGBTQ lies ([link removed]) .
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In his column this week, George Weigel explains how Saint John Paul the Great’s visionary leadership changed history ([link removed]) .
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On her Substack, Alexandra DeSanctis writes that Senate Democrats are misleading the public about what women’s healthcare really is ([link removed]) .
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Brad Littlejohn joined Mars Hill Audio to discuss how to renew authentic political authority ([link removed]) .
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Erika Bachiochi gave a lecture to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Student Summit exploring the unique role and dignity of women within our culture.
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EPPC Board Member Robert P. George will lead an online discussion featuring Ryan T. Anderson about how to restore unity and heal division through a return to fidelity to God, our spouses and families, our communities, and country.
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** Richard John Neuhaus Fellowship
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Applications are now open for the 2024–2025 Richard John Neuhaus Fellowship, a graduate-level program in Washington, D.C., for those working in government, journalism, think tanks, or other policy-relevant institutions, which explores the Judeo-Christian tradition and its role in shaping public policy and the mediating institutions of civil society.
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is excited to present our 2023 annual report. As you’ll see, EPPC is flourishing, and our efforts to bring about renewal in American public life are bearing good fruit.
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