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** ARE THESE NOT MY PEOPLE?
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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Perhaps one problem with our conversations about race is that we want to have things both ways – to heal as one without accepting any responsibility for a whole. We want to proclaim ourselves one people, but without taking responsibility for the parts to which we do not wish to belong.
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** FIRE, AGAIN
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
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The current outbreak of protests and riots feels like a sudden, comprehensive event of physics or meteorology, a perfect storm of perfect storms, multilayered and interpenetrating and simultaneous. Read More ([link removed])
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** ABANDONING LIBERALISM WILL DESTROY SOCIAL PEACE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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Banning op-eds by Trump supporters — like Senator Tom Cotton — may seem less likely to kick off violent strife than a defunded police force, but it is every bit as dangerous. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Kurtz’s piece ([link removed]) arguing that “the Democrats’ center has collapsed, leaving Biden little choice but to play to his illiberal left.”)
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** PROGRESSIVES HAVE MORE POWER THAN ANYONE ELSE TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF BLACK AMERICANS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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The Minneapolis City Council’s apparent decision to defund its police force is shocking. It is also a clear demonstration of how much power progressives hold to address racial inequality if they really want to. Read More ([link removed])
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** ALL CONFLICT, ALL THE TIME
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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Nations change when we change. And the latter is the much harder task. Read More ([link removed])
** “THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD…” ([link removed])
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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the glory of God declared in a display of astronomical wonders that vividly illustrate the extravagance of the divine creativity, writes ([link removed]) EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel.
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** YOUR SILENCE ISN’T ENOUGH
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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The social-justice Left is pioneering a new tactic for shutting down dissent and amplifying groupthink. Read More ([link removed])
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** LOL SOME THINGS MATTER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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The country is finding rare consensus about police reform and systemic racism. Where is the GOP? Read More ([link removed])
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** TRUMP MAY BE DOWN, BUT HE’S NOT OUT. AT LEAST NOT YET.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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President Trump’s poll numbers are down and dropping, leading many pundits to speculate that he’s finally out. He’s not. But he soon will be if he doesn’t change course. Read More ([link removed])
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** A TALE OF TWO CHURCH VISITS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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The president’s fear of seeming weak makes the whole country weaker. Read More ([link removed])
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** IDENTITY POLITICS EXCOMMUNICATES ITS HERETICS
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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The Left’s worldview functions as a religion, punishing or coercing dissenters and silencing heretics. Read More ([link removed])
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** NO, THE LOCKDOWNS WEREN’T AN OVERREACTION
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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From the beginning of the pandemic, many conservatives have argued that the lockdowns were an overreaction to the novel coronavirus and that they are causing unnecessary economic pain. Recent studies, however, show that this argument is wrong. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE VATICAN’S CHOICE: JIMMY LAI OR XI JINPING?
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Around the world, voices have been raised in support of Hong Kong’s brave pro-democracy demonstrators. Has the Holy See’s voice been heard? Read More ([link removed])
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** TRUMP’S SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE ORDER IS A BIG MISTAKE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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President Trump’s executive order addressing the exemption from legal liability that social media companies enjoy for content posted on their sites by users is both premature and misguided. Read More ([link removed])
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