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** TESTING: THE WAY OUT OF THIS TRAP
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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Whatever mayors, governors, or presidents might say, we cannot restart the economy as long as people are too frightened to resume working, shopping, and socializing.
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** THE WAR GOES ON
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal

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Americans are engaged in a great double struggle—against a pandemic, but also against one another. Read More ([link removed])


** NEW EPPC PODCAST EPISODES
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On the latest episode ([link removed]) of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, host Josh Good convenes a conversation between EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner and pastor Tim Keller about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting churches across the spectrum; Rev. Keller’s observations about tribalism and spiritual formation over the course of his ministry career; the experience of pastoring a church in New York in the aftermath of 9/11; and much more.

And on episode #15 ([link removed]) of The Horse Race, EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen explores the history of political analysis with one of its founders, Stuart Rothenberg; talks with columnist and author E.J. Dionne about President Trump’s week and about Joe Biden’s chances to improve Democratic performance with white working class voters; and analyzes a new Ad of the Week.

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** RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS NOT A BOON GRANTED BY THE BENIGN STATE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report

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Just governments have obligations to protect religious freedom as an unalienable right of persons, and to regulate its exercise for the sake of the common good. They will do that regulation properly if they keep that prior obligation firmly in mind, and resist the temptation to imagine that they “confer” religious freedom on the people they serve. Read More ([link removed])

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** TRUMP’S COVID-19 PERFORMANCE IS AN ENCAPSULATION OF HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Verbal turmoil is still the president’s chief rhetorical calling card. But it’s clear that actual policy is usually determined elsewhere. Read More ([link removed])

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** VILE SMEAR OF JUSTICE ALITO
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By EPPC President Ed Whelan
National Review Online

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In a rant on Vox, Ian Millhiser condemns Justice Alito as a “defender of white racial innocence.” Read More ([link removed])

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** PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S AMBASSADOR TO CBS NEWS
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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Kate Smith poses as a neutral reporter, smuggling her support for abortion into her work and sacrificing her objectivity for scoops from prominent abortion-rights groups. Read More ([link removed])

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** COMMON CORE HAS FAILED. NOW WHAT?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

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In the midst of the pandemic, with the country’s attention riveted elsewhere, something of great potential consequence for American K-12 education has just happened. Years from now we might look back on this moment as a turning point: the true beginning-of-the-end for Common Core. Read More ([link removed])

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** DOES TRUMP HAVE A SECRET STASH OF VOTERS?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The Trump campaign can reasonably expect that independent voters who approve of his job performance will eventually come around to voting to reelect the president. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE PARTY OF THE AGGRIEVED
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic

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Whether or not the Republican Party can recover from the Trump years depends in part on how the Trump story ends. Read More ([link removed])

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** UNDERSTANDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN DEATHS FROM COVID-19
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

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Though we can never discount the long-lasting effects of racism, it’s dubious to attribute this pathogen’s lethality to cultural factors. Read More ([link removed])

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** COVID-19 THREATENS YET ANOTHER VICTIM: SOCIAL SECURITY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Social Security’s long-term fiscal problems have been chronicled for years. The program has been forecast to go broke in the mid-2030s. Without tax hikes, spending cuts or a mixture of the two, there won’t be enough money left to pay 100 percent of scheduled Social Security benefits when that happens. Read More ([link removed])

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** REDISCOVERING BAPTISM IN PLAGUE-TIME
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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As the Catholic Church has understood it for two millennia, baptism is far, far more than a welcoming ritual: Baptism effects a fundamental change in who we are, what we can “see,” and what we must do. Read More ([link removed])

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** DRINKING WITH YOUR PATRON SAINTS DURING A PANDEMIC
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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A book on cocktail-making gives Catholics a new hobby for time stuck indoors. Read More ([link removed])

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** CREDIT, WHERE IT’S DUE
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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The actions of the media, lawyers, and victims’ advocacy groups have sometimes been, taken in isolation, very damaging to the Church. But the actions of these same groups have often, over the long term, been a strong force moving the Church in the right direction. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE “HISTORIC” AMAZONIAN SYNOD, REVISITED
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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Time will tell whether the special Synod for Amazonia made a significant contribution to the proclamation of Jesus Christ and the gospel in a largely unevangelized region, or whether that synod was a stalking horse for a host of other agendas, ecclesiastical, ecological, and political. Read More ([link removed])

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