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** THE AMERICAN SOUL IN A TIME OF PLAGUE
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By EPPC Adjunct Fellow Eric Cohen
National Affairs
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The coronavirus pandemic, and the protests over racial injustice, have called for deeper reservoirs of endurance — and summoned forth deeper questions about what really matters in our lives as individuals and as a nation.
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** OUR DEEPER TASK
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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You don’t need a well-developed theory of justice to be appalled or outraged by real injustices – for example, by police brutality or the killing of George Floyd. But you need it to see clearly what has brought our communities and country to this state of affairs. Read More ([link removed])

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** GEORGE FLOYD CHANGED MY MIND
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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Police have a difficult job and deal with the worst of the worst on a daily basis. But the mistreatment of African Americans is not a myth and is not even uncommon. Read More ([link removed])

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** ‘IT ISN’T HATE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH’: J.K. ROWLING TAKES A STAND AGAINST GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND WE SHOULD STAND WITH HER
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By EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson
Our Sunday Visitor

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The transgender movement’s rapid redefinition of what it means to be a human person — who we are — threatens our culture, religious freedom and human flourishing. Read More ([link removed])

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** AUDREY DONNITHORNE: WOMAN OF VALOR
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report

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In ninety-seven years of an extraordinary life, Audrey Donnithorne navigated a kaleidoscope of experiences that rank her as one of the most remarkable Catholics of modern times and a genuine heroine of the faith. Read More ([link removed])

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** LIFE LESSONS: FOUR PILLARS, THREE LITTLE PIGS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
Public Discourse

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We have limited time. So how should we use it? What will our lives mean when we finally look back on them? Like it or not, we inevitably choose a path, either by our love or refusal to love; by our actions or our refusals to act. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUST REAFFIRM ITS LIBERAL CHARACTER
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By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Real Clear Policy

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We the living have at this moment an opportunity to rediscover and recommit to the ideal of the university as the home of rational debate and inquiry. This core mission of the American university is the common ground of American society, apart from partisan rancor and mob tactics, and dedicated to the proposition that all positions are created equal and up for debate. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE ANTI-STATUE MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN A TURN INTO ABSURDITY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Knocking down or defacing statues of national founders or heroes not only displays ignorance of history but also assaults the principles of Western civilization that allow for racial progress to continue. Read More ([link removed])

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** EXPERTS IN SPATE

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By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion

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The coronavirus, together with the measures chosen to deal with it, has been a disaster for pretty much everybody else, but it has been a godsend to the American media and their long-running anti-Trump “narrative.” Read More ([link removed])

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** THE PRODUCTIVITY PANDEMIC
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review

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Though staying occupied during the pandemic has been a bit more of a challenge than usual, maybe it has reminded us, too, that it’s okay not to be always so busy, that a day of less productivity won’t kill us. Read More ([link removed])

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** WE CAN FIND COMMON GROUND ON GAY RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner (with Jonathan Rauch)
The New York Times

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The Fairness for All Act opens the conversation the country needs to have now, when fracture and polarization seem to be reaching unsustainable levels. Read More ([link removed])

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** WILL NANCY PELOSI TAKE A PAGE FROM HER FATHER’S PLAYBOOK?
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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The chief obstacle to emergency financial aid for the low- and middle-income parents who still wish to choose Catholic schools for their children is resistance to such aid in the Democratic caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives. Read More ([link removed])

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** TRUMP THE BARBARIAN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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While the president’s defenders decry the breakdown of law and order, they ignore the lawlessness in the Oval Office. Read More ([link removed])

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** TRUMP’S ORDER BANNING IMMIGRATION PUTS DEMOCRATS IN A BIND
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning most types of work-related immigration does more than intensify the election-year dispute over immigration policy. It presents the Democrats with difficult choices in both the short and long terms. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE LEAST SHOCKING ENDORSEMENT EVER
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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In a bit of news that surely everyone saw coming, Planned Parenthood has endorsed Joe Biden for president. Read More ([link removed])

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** LISTENING TO ROBERT F. KENNEDY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic

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Was there something about Robert Kennedy’s habits of mind and heart, his disposition, that we could use now? Read More ([link removed])

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** FROM GOWNS TO MASKS: ONE WOMAN’S MINISTRY OF CHARITY
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By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito
Our Sunday Visitor

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A Chicago-area woman’s act of charity for one child quickly — but sadly — blossomed into a full-time ministry. When the COVID-19 epidemic began to hit the Chicago area hard, she was suddenly compelled to change the focus of her work. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE BIASES OF A ROYAL COMMISSION
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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As Cardinal George Pell has said, the Australian Church behaved shamefully for decades in dealing with clerical abusers. Yet Pell, the first Australian bishop to address that scandalous situation forcefully, was scapegoated by the Royal Commission for the gross failures of other bishops. Read More ([link removed])

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