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** THE POLLING INDUSTRY CAN’T SWEEP ITS FAILURE UNDER THE RUG
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Political prognostication is an art as well as a science. Pollsters and analysts clearly leaned too much in favor of purported science this time around.
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** TALK IS CHEAP. HERE’S WHAT BIDEN NEEDS TO DO TO BE A UNITY PRESIDENT.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Partisan differences will and should remain, but common ground can be found if Republicans are treated with understanding and respect. Read More ([link removed])
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** A NOISY PLACE
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
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America has always been two nations—at least two—even as it has insisted, officially, on the sentimental self-image of “one nation, indivisible.” Read More ([link removed])
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** THE LEFT DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WOMEN
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Exit polls show that Donald Trump tightened race and gender gaps while winning a majority of married women. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE NEW COLONIALISM
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
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What may be coming our way is an odd kind of “new colonialism,” with flyover country—that Dark Continent formerly known as places like Kansas, Alabama, and Tennessee—reduced in effective power to mission territory for our enlightened coastal elites. Read More ([link removed])
Be sure to check out these other resources from EPPC scholars on last week’s elections:
* EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen on AEI’s Election Watch Panel ([link removed]) (VIDEO)
* EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson in a Conversation Hosted by Benedictine College ([link removed]) (VIDEO)
UNDERSTANDING THE MCCARRICK REPORT
“Theodore McCarrick counted on the members of the episcopal club not to break the club rules. The path forward lies in dismantling those rules and consigning them to oblivion, along with the rest of the clerical caste system,” argues ([link removed]) EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel.
Mr. Weigel also observes ([link removed]) that “Saints are human beings, and saints, in their humanity, can be deceived. But let the focus of wickedness in this tawdry affair be identified accurately as Theodore McCarrick, not John Paul II.”
“The McCarrick Report has limitations, to be sure, and leaves many questions unanswered,” explains ([link removed]) EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White. “But it also presents a detailed and incriminating account of institutional failures spanning multiple decades and multiple pontificates.”
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** LINCOLN, DOUGLAS, AND THE FAILURE OF COLORADO’S PRO-LIFE VOTE
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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A cherished defense of those who favor legal abortion later in pregnancy is that such procedures are incredibly rare and are made available only when a mother’s health is at risk or her unborn child suffers from a life-threatening disease. Perhaps such a belief is comforting, but it nevertheless conflicts with reality. Read More ([link removed])
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** LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE THROUGH HIS EYES: JOHN PAUL II, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THE CRISIS OF THE WEST
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
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The age of the ethnic or national transmission of Catholic faith – the age of Catholicism transmitted by a kind of genetic inheritance or osmosis – is over everywhere in the Western world. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Weigel’s essay ([link removed]) on how “John Courtney Murray’s warnings from more than a half-century ago, and his analysis of the roots of a possible crack-up of American political culture, are remarkably prescient and well worth pondering today.”)
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** INTERVIEW: ERIKA BACHIOCHI ON THE FUTURE OF PRO-LIFE FEMINISM
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Public Discourse
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The question that divides us is how we ought to respond to reproductive asymmetry: the reality that women carry disproportionate burdens due to our special role in human reproduction. Read More ([link removed])
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** WARRING SPIRITS
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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Our country is soul-sick from worshipping many idols – Mammon, Asmodeus, and Moloch. It shows. The signs are all around us, for those with eyes to see. Read More ([link removed])
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** BIDEN’S BIPARTISAN PLAN: DESTROY AMERICAN EDUCATION
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
The American Mind
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The campus free-speech crisis, kicked into high gear by the election of President Trump in 2016, has metastasized into the woke revolution of 2020, transforming American attitudes toward education in the process. Read More ([link removed])
(See also this piece ([link removed]) in which Mr. Kurtz explains why a recent executive order “marks an important step in President Trump’s efforts to foster patriotic education.”)
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** AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF “COURAGE”
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Against fierce cultural and social pressures, many Catholics strive—with the help of grace, their pastors, and each other—to live the Catholic ethic of human love even as they experience same-sex attractions. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHY THE DIGITAL MOB FEARS THE POWER OF LITTLE-READ BOOKS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
National Catholic Register
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Modern technology obscures both the past and the future by locking us in the frenzies of the present and interfering with reflective thought. Read More ([link removed])
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** THREE MODELS OF PRIESTLY GOODNESS
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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It is very, very hard to be the Catholic Church without being a vibrantly eucharistic Church. That’s true for everyone. The people of the Church should realize that it’s especially true for priests. Read More ([link removed])
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