THE AMERICAN SOUL IN A TIME OF PLAGUE
By EPPC Adjunct Fellow Eric Cohen
National Affairs
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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NEW PODCAST EPISODES
FEATURING EPPC SCHOLARS
Don’t miss the latest episodes from EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, including a conversation among New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, AEI adjunct fellow Lyman Stone, and Faith Angle Forum director Josh Good on the shape of American religiosity.
Follow the latest twists and turns of this year’s campaigns with EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen’s podcast The Horse Race, featuring discussions with leading political journalists and analysts.
And tune into Beg to Differ, a roundtable conversation on the news of the week hosted by EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen.
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OUR DEEPER TASK
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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
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GEORGE FLOYD CHANGED MY MIND
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
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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
By EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson
Our Sunday Visitor
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
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AUDREY DONNITHORNE: WOMAN OF VALOR
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
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
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LIFE LESSONS: FOUR PILLARS, THREE LITTLE PIGS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
Public Discourse
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
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THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUST REAFFIRM ITS LIBERAL CHARACTER
By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Real Clear Policy
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
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THE ANTI-STATUE MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN A TURN INTO ABSURDITY
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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
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EXPERTS IN SPATE
By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion
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
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THE PRODUCTIVITY PANDEMIC
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review
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
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WE CAN FIND COMMON GROUND ON GAY RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner (with Jonathan Rauch)
The New York Times
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
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WILL NANCY PELOSI TAKE A PAGE FROM HER FATHER’S PLAYBOOK?
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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
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TRUMP THE BARBARIAN
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
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TRUMP’S ORDER BANNING IMMIGRATION PUTS DEMOCRATS IN A BIND
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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
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THE LEAST SHOCKING ENDORSEMENT EVER
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
In a bit of news that surely everyone saw coming, Planned Parenthood has endorsed Joe Biden for president. Read More
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LISTENING TO ROBERT F. KENNEDY
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
Was there something about Robert Kennedy’s habits of mind and heart, his disposition, that we could use now? Read More
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FROM GOWNS TO MASKS: ONE WOMAN’S MINISTRY OF CHARITY
By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito
Our Sunday Visitor
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
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THE BIASES OF A ROYAL COMMISSION
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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
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