THE CAPITOL RIOT SHOWS HOW FRAGILE A FREE NATION CAN BE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol was unconscionable, unpatriotic and despicable.
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TAKE A LESSON FROM TOM COTTON, REPUBLICANS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Senator Tom Cotton’s statement why he would oppose challenges to the electoral-college vote is an excellent explanation of why they are a bad idea. Read More
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SOME REPUBLICANS HAVE FINALLY FOUND A LINE THEY WON’T CROSS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
The GOP needs leaders who will distance their party from the wreckage and the ruin the president has brought. Read More
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THE CONTESTED MEANING OF
WOMEN’S EQUALITY
However much we might like our daughters and sons to see their fundamental equality emblazoned in the text of the Constitution, strict equality will not give mothers and fathers the support they need, explains EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi in National Affairs. A more intentional and robust family policy, on the other hand, just might.
Ms. Bachiochi’s forthcoming book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, will be published in July and is now available for pre-order here.
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CATHOLIC COHERENCE, CATHOLIC INTEGRITY
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Bishops who maintain the Church’s eucharistic integrity and coherence are not acting politically or punitively; those bishops are calling the entire Church to deeper conversion while expressing appropriate, indeed necessary, concern for the spiritual well-being and moral coherence of those under their pastoral care. Read More
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A CATHOLIC MOMENT
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
If Protestantism no longer provides the ballast for this republic, and if Catholicism is not – at least, not presently – up to the task, then one of two options remains. Either our politics will continue to careen towards disaster or something else will, if it has not already, fill the void. Read More
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OUR HISTORY THEN AND NOW
By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
National Affairs
American historiography — the writing of our history — has never been a more hotly contested political battleground than it is today. Read More
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BEWARE: NEW CIVICS MANDATES WILL BE WOKE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
A commendable desire to counter both civic illiteracy and the excesses of woke ideology has produced a new national movement to mandate history and civics standards. Unfortunately, that strategy will produce the very opposite of its intended effect. Read More
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WILL JOE MANCHIN REMAIN PRO-LIFE?
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
Senator Joe Manchin could very well choose to maintain his support for abortion restrictions and protections for unborn children and taxpayers’ rights, especially given the views of his constituents. But it’s no sure thing. Read More
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DISARMING FRONTLINE DOCTORS
By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
The New Atlantis
In its quest to meet the “gold standard,” academic medicine has put Covid patients at risk. Read More
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THOUGHTS ON A PRO-LIFE PICKET LINE
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
In the tough years ahead for the culture of life, compassionate witness is going to be ever more important: especially the witness of caring for women in crisis pregnancies. Read More
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THE PURSUIT OF HOME
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Luma Simms
Law and Liberty
When it comes to immigration, the fundamental question is: how can we help people find a home? The answer is not no borders, but humane ones. Read More
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HEAVY ON THOUGHT, LIGHT ON FAITH
By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
American Purpose
The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s book on restoring the common good in divided times is a noble project in a rich and noble life, but it fails to draw on the wisdom of his faith. Read More
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THE FORGOTTEN RADICALISM OF JESUS CHRIST
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly radical and radically inclusive figure Jesus was, and neither are today’s Christians. We want to tame and domesticate who he was, but Jesus’ life and ministry don’t really allow for it. Read More
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CHRISTMAS IN A DARK TIME
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
Christmas should speak of the power of love, of forgiveness—a truce, a tenderness. There’s not much of that right now in the noisy, nasty public square. Read More
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WHAT THE MAGI TEACH US
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
The Magi, wrote Pope Benedict XVI, are not mythical figures in “a meditation presented under the guise of stories.” Rather, the Magi story helps us to “understand the mystery of Jesus more deeply.” Read More
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MAKING ROOM AT THE INN
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
Christmas is when we encounter God at His most approachable and familiar: as a newborn baby. Read More
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