JUSTICE BARRETT WOULD EXTEND
SCALIA’S LEGACY
By EPPC President Ed Whelan
National Review
Amy Coney Barrett’s record, both as a judge and in her earlier career as a distinguished law professor at Notre Dame, shows both her profound commitment to Justice Scalia’s principles of textualism and originalism and her stellar ability to implement them.
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Mr. Whelan is offering running commentary on the Barrett nomination at National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog. See this compendium of Mr. Whelan’s commentary.
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AMY CONEY BARRETT: A NEW FEMINIST ICON
By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
Politico
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FEMINISTS SHOULD BE CELEBRATING AMY CONEY BARRETT
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
One would be hard-pressed to find a woman who has navigated the difficult trenches of career success and motherhood as ably as Amy Coney Barrett. Read More
(See also Miss DeSanctis’s piece outlining how progressives use “religious faith as a bludgeon” to keep “judicially mandated abortion on demand in place at all costs.”)
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HOW TO TAKE BACK AMERICAN HISTORY
“Our schools have buried the glory and beauty of America’s story under a mountain of misplaced guilt and tendentious ideology,” argues EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz.
And, in another piece for National Review on the controversy over the New York Times’s 1619 Project, Mr. Kurtz explains that “federalism and local control remain the best defenses against a suffocating national education orthodoxy.”
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TRUMAN’S TERRIBLE CHOICE, 75 YEARS AGO
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
President Truman authorized the use of the atomic bombs thinking, rightly, that doing so would save American and Japanese lives by shocking Japan into surrender. Given the available options, it was the correct choice. Read More
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CIVILIZED UNCERTAINTY
By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
Humanities Magazine
Thomas Mann never could explain what the world was, but he did a masterly job of portraying it in all its glorious and bedeviled complication. Read More
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BEFORE REPORTING BECAME “JOURNALISM”
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
It would be silly to idealize the old journalism. But it had this virtue: The work, subduing the ego of the reporter, implied respect for the independent mind of the reader. Read More
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THE WORLD’S BROKEST “BILLIONAIRE”
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
The xxxxxx
If President Trump were to be reelected, he would face a reckoning on a mountain of debt. Read More
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TRUMP COULD TURN THE RACE AROUND WITH HIS GOOD JOBS NEWS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The national economic picture looks bleak, with unemployment claims still at record highs and the unemployment rate still higher than 8 percent. State-level data, however, paints a much rosier picture for President Trump. Read More
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DOES THE DEBT MATTER?
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner (with Ian Tufts)
National Affairs
Massive debt is surely a real problem. But rather than a sudden, Greek-style economic implosion, in the United States, it likely poses the threat of a gradual and incremental weakening of economic potential. Read More
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THE CATHOLIC FUTURE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
Taking account of the challenges facing the Church in the third millennium, and drawing lessons from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, George Weigel systematically outlines the qualities needed in the next successor of Peter in his new book The Next Pope. Read More
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THE PROVIDENTIAL DEMISE OF THE PAPAL STATES
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
The sesquicentennial of the end of the Papal States is a moment to ponder the workings of divine providence in history, including the divine capacity to write straight with what may seem, at the time, crooked lines. Read More
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PACKING THE SUPREME COURT IS A HORRIBLE IDEA. DEMOCRATS MUST REJECT IT.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The judicial branch’s primary virtue, and the reason it is a separate branch of government, is that it’s nonpolitical. Read More
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THE YESHIVA CASE: A LEGAL PATH FORWARD
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman (with Howard Slugh)
Excerpted from Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York
Jewish organizations and individuals have a necessary and powerful role to play in America’s ongoing discussions regarding religious liberty. Situations such as the conflict over New York’s yeshivas demonstrate how grave the stakes can be. Read More
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ON THE FEAST OF THE LITTLE FLOWER
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s life was small and hidden, seemingly insignificant. But her “Little Way” changed the world. Read More
(See also Mr. White’s column lamenting that “American Catholics have grown accustomed to seeking the fruits of a healthy Church ... while taking little care for the spiritual work that makes the Church blossom in the first place.”)
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THE FATUITIES OF PROFESSOR FAGGIOLI
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
There is something deeply awry in Massimo Faggioli’s understanding of contemporary China and his defense of the Vatican Ostpolitik of the late 1960s and 1970s. Read More
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CRITICS OF CUTIES AREN’T CONSPIRACY THEORISTS
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
Netflix’s defenders are conflating legitimate criticism with QAnon and ignoring the movie’s overt sexualization of young girls. Read More
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