BRITAIN IS ON THE VERGE OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The loss of a Conservative majority in the House of Commons sets up an unpredictable chain of events that could derail British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s promised Brexit strategy and throw the nation into a serious constitutional crisis.
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FALSELY, MATILDA
The case of Cardinal George Pell has reversed the presumption of innocence that is the foundation of criminal law in the Anglosphere and obviated the requirement that the burden of proof rests on the prosecution to persuade jurors beyond a reasonable doubt, argues EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: MY BOYHOOD OLYMPUS
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
National Review
To someone who grew up in the Washington of the 1940s and 50s, the city is unrecognizable one minute, but in the next, it is the same as it always was: corrupt, yet sacred — a rascally and fallible and enchanted place: a city built low to the ground, spacious and full of trees and obscurely haunted. Read More
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IF YOU DON’T FIND YOUR IDENTITY IN A FAMILY, YOU’LL LOOK FOR IT IN THE PRIMAL SCREAMS OF IDENTITY POLITICS
By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Public Discourse
The ascent of identity politics reveals that people are having an identity crisis, and they are having an identity crisis because the sexual revolution resulted in family—and, by extension, individual—breakdown. Read More
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TRUMP ACCELERATES THE DANGEROUS POLITICIZATION OF ISRAEL
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
The president’s talk of American Jews’ “loyalty” and his interference in two congressional Democrats’ trip to Israel hurt the interests of the Jewish state. Read More
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ABUSE ON THE MARGINS
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
One of the underexplored facets of the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the United States is the way in which marginalized and minority communities have proven particularly susceptible both to abusers themselves and to the malfeasance of bishops and religious superiors who mishandled reports of abuse. Read More
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IN PRAISE OF TODAY’S SEMINARIANS
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Is there more to be done, in refining recruitment of students for the priesthood and reforming American seminaries? Undoubtedly. But a great deal has in fact been accomplished in the last 15 years, and it’s important that the people of the Church know it. Read More
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RUIN OR RENEWAL? THOUGHTS ON AMERICA’S THIRD CENTURY
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
Law and Liberty
Our political contests are increasingly bitter and render normal political decision making impossible. It is tempting, but wrong, to assume that past will be prologue, that our current divisions are temporary and will fade in short order. Read More
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THE JOE WALSH CHALLENGE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
Former Congressman and radio provocateur Joe Walsh embodies much that has gone wrong in American politics, just like the man he is challenging. Read More
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THE BURNING AMAZON SHOWS EXACTLY WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE DEVELOPED WORLD’S APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Group of Seven nations have pledged millions of dollars in aid to fight fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to show they are serious about fighting climate change. Instead, the situation starkly shows how unserious their climate-change policy is. Read More
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AS “THE LEAGUE” BEGINS ITS CENTENNIAL SEASON
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Whatever the record books show, Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Gino Marchetti was a big man in several ways. Read More
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