THERE'S NO GOOD CASE AGAINST CONFIRMING AMY CONEY BARRETT
By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
CNN
Given the strength of Judge Barrett’s record, perhaps playing to the fears of the American public — who aren’t likely to be reading commentaries on the upcoming Supreme Court term but are voting soon — was the Democrats’ only play.
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Listen to Erika Bachiochi on NPR’s “On Point” segment discussing what Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination means for women’s rights. Find the segment here.
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CONFIRMING NEW JUSTICES IS NOT 'PACKING THE COURT'
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
Democrats must not be allowed to get away with brazenly redefining terms and refusing to say whether they’ll upend a century and a half of tradition by expanding the size of the Supreme Court. Read More
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ED WHELAN ON THE BARRETT NOMINATION
EPPC President Ed Whelan is offering running commentary in support of the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. See this compendium of Mr. Whelan’s commentary at National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog.
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PEOPLE OF PRAISE DESERVES OURS
By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary Hallan FioRito
The Wall Street Journal
America has a lot to learn from Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘covenant community.’ Read More
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THE TOXIC WASTE OF ROE V. WADE
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
A Supreme Court that hollows out or even reverses Roe v. Wade will not settle the American abortion debate; it will return the issue to the states, where there will be mixed results for the cause of life. Read More
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YES, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS HAVE QUESTIONED JUDICIAL NOMINEES ABOUT THEIR FAITH
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
Amy Coney Barrett is not the only judge to have faced improper scrutiny from Democrats over her religious beliefs. Read More
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AMY BARRETT AND THE INTOLERABLE
By EPPC Fellow Stephen White
The Catholic Thing
The distinctiveness of Barrett’s faith – and the consternation it causes among the champions of certain secular pieties – is refreshing. It also underscores the indistinctiveness of so many Catholics who hold public office. Read More
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IF YOU SUP WITH THE DEVIL
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
The current pontificate’s outreach to China is, for Mr. Lai Chee Ying, fatally flawed at the expense of China’s Christian believers. Read More
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THE SECRET DESIRE FOR BARRENNESS
By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Breaking Ground
Fecundity and barrenness contend—in each of us. Those of us who have a secret desire for barrenness are ashamed of it. Read More
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LETTER CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF '1619 PROJECT' PULITZER
By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
By striking the most famous claim of the 1619 Project and then covering up that act, the New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones have retroactively exposed their effort as a bad-faith project. Read More
See also Mr. Kurtz’s recent appearance on the “Law Liberty Talk” podcast where he discusses his new book, The Lost History of Western Civilization. Listen to “How the West Was Lost” here.
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THE HARD ROAD OF NATIONAL RENEWAL
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
“Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted by scholars concerned about the dangerous deterioration of American public life, insists that we must treat each other as mutually responsible individuals, not as embodiments of racial or ideological categories. Read More
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FDR, CORONAVIRUS AND THE POLITICS OF BRAVADO
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
When Mr. Trump tells his fellow citizens not to be intimidated by the coronavirus, not to let it “dominate” them, he invites them to share in an optative, mind-over-matter metaphysics that is the key to his relationship to the truth and the workings of his presidency. Read More
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BREAKING NEWS: NOT EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
The xxxxxx
For the first time in a long time, the world looks brighter and a little more hopeful than it did seven months ago. As awful as it has been, this disease was not the apocalypse we feared. Read More
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WE HAVE A TOUGH ECONOMIC RECOVERY AHEAD — NO MATTER WHO WINS IN NOVEMBER
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The decline in the headline unemployment rate, from 8.4 percent to 7.9 percent, is superficially good news for President Trump. But a deeper dive reveals underlying, structural barriers to returning to pre-pandemic levels that will bedevil whoever wins. Read More
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COLUMBUS DAY: ACCURACY & PUBLIC HONOR CAN CO-EXIST
By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Real Clear Policy
Columbus’s legacy is as important as ever today because it reminds us that historical accuracy and public honor are not mutually exclusive. While recognizing Columbus’s imperfections, we can also honor the good he passed down to us. Read More
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IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE: A REVIEW OF LIVE NOT BY LIES
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic World Report
Rod Dreher’s new book seeks first to explain what’s reshaping American culture and why; and then to suggest the strategies needed today to live and witness Christian hope, despite the changing terrain. Read More
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WHO ARE THESE REPUBLICANS?
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
The xxxxxx
You can tell a lot about the state of the party by the people who are joining it, the people who are leaving it, and the people it’s pushing out. Read More
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INTERVIEW: GEORGE WEIGEL ON THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel and RJ Carr
Medium
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was interviewed recently about his new book The Next Pope and the Future of the Catholic Church. Read More
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RAISED BY WOLVES
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
What’s missing in Raised by Wolves, as in so much of modern science fiction, is precisely anything resembling or ennobling the human soul. Read More
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