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** THE SUPREME COURT FINALLY HAS A MAJORITY THAT WILL PROTECT
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Liberals have often defended the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence as a defense of minority rights against majority tyranny. Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation shows there is now a court majority that recognizes religious rights are worthy of constitutional protection, too.
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** BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS AND HANUKKAH
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In his annual roundup of book recommendations ([link removed]) , EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel reminds readers that, no matter how bad this year was, “good books can hearten us in 2021 and beyond.”
As you shop for gifts this holiday season, consider purchasing some of the books published by EPPC scholars this year: The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law ([link removed]) , co-edited by EPPC President Ed Whelan; The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission ([link removed]) , by EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel; God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money ([link removed]) , by EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow; and What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics ([link removed]) by EPPC Fellow O. Carter Snead. EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz’s The Lost History of Western Civilization is also available as a free PDF download here
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** HARD LESSONS OF THE MCCARRICK AFFAIR
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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The shameful story of Theodore McCarrick illustrates more than the demonic power of deception. McCarrick’s deceptions operated within a cultural matrix that enabled him to avoid the consequences of his depredations for decades. Read More ([link removed])
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** OUR REAL SYSTEMIC PROBLEM
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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We ought to be spending more time puzzling out ways to combat our real systemic problem — family decline — a problem ably explored in Mary Eberstadt’s thoughtful and courageous work. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Kurtz’s piece ([link removed]) on how Peter Wood’s book 1620 is “a withering appraisal and deadpan skewering of the 1619 Project as a cultural phenomenon.”)
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** CHOOSE REPAIR, NOT REVENGE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
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Because we are a nation so fractured that each side barely comprehends the other, this is a time for magnanimity. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE GENIUS OF WORDSWORTH
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By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
First Things
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William Wordsworth was the greatest of the English Romantics, innovative in form and content, yet with a lasting influence on the conservative sensibility in culture and politics. Read More ([link removed])
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** JOHN PAUL II COMMITTED SINS, TOO. JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER SAINTS.
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
America Magazine
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The blemishes of the saints, including John Paul II, ought not be hidden, nor should they scandalize us. Rather, they should be a reminder to us of both humility—in the face of our own many failings—and of hope. Read More ([link removed])
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** GENE EDITING AND PLANNED PERSONHOOD
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By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
Public Discourse
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The future of germline editing includes practical risks, but the question of whether it will happen should hinge not only on whether it can be safely done. Physicians must carefully consider their role in relation to their patients, which is different from that of a scientist working with specimens in a lab. Read More ([link removed])
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** AN UNFUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO 2021
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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Polarization, political correctness and Covid-19 have produced a hostile environment for humor. Read More ([link removed])
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** RAPHAEL WARNOCK MIGHT REALLY BE TOO RADICAL FOR GEORGIA
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Rev. Raphael Warnock, the Democratic nominee for one of Georgia’s Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, genuinely believes that America is a fallen, corrupt nation, befouled by racism and besmirched by capitalism. Read More ([link removed])
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** PEOPLE OF THE LIE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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Donald Trump may have teased and fed the nation’s spirit of conflict, but he didn’t create it. And Trump’s exit won’t heal any of our deepest fractures. Read More ([link removed])
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** ELITE OPINION IS NEVER WRONG
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
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Reality may fail to measure up to cocktail party assumptions, but the chit-chat of the better people rings on, unchanged. Read More ([link removed])
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** THINKING IS SELF-EMPTYING
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By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
The Point
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Wounds can be a gift to the world, if they can help other people to know themselves. Read More ([link removed])
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** THANKSGIVING AND THE PARADOX OF DEATH
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Thanksgiving and November’s remembrance of the dead are well matched. Not in a lugubrious or morbid way, but as a reminder to be grateful, throughout the year, for the possibility of offering our lives back to the God who gave us life. Read More ([link removed])
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** CHRISTIAN GRATITUDE
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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We should be grateful that we are not responsible for saving this broken and miserable world. If its salvation were up to us, the world would be utterly without hope. Read More ([link removed])
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