HOW TO APPLY NON-DISCRIMINATION TO DIGITAL PLATFORMS VIA COMMON CARRIAGE
By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell (with Law Professor Adam Candeub)
Newsweek
The content moderation decisions of the dominant Big Tech conglomerates appear to many reasonable observers to be censorship of conservative speech. To remedy this problem, many have recently been looking to the common law doctrine of common carriage—particularly since Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent concurring opinion that highlighted this possible approach.
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THE CRITICS ARE WRONG. FLORIDA’S SOCIAL MEDIA LAW IS A NECESSARY PROTECTION OF POLITICAL SPEECH.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is receiving fire for signing a bill on Monday that bans social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook from censoring posts from registered political candidates. The critics are wrong: the law enhances political speech at a minimal cost to the affected companies. Read More
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THINKING CHRISTIANLY ABOUT GOODS AND RIGHTS WITH FLORIDA’S “BIG TECH” BILL
By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Carl F. H. Henry Institute
The tension that Christians need to wrestle with is not dispensing with either procedural rights or substantive goods, but understanding how rights serve the good and under what conditions competing rights claims yield to particular goods, in this case, the good of knowledge and political discourse. Read More
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BY EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
The Human Life Review
David Daleiden published video evidence suggesting that prominent abortionists, Planned Parenthood executives, and biotechnology companies were engaged in a systematic campaign to profit from the body parts of aborted babies, in violation of state and federal laws. Nearly six years later, despite congressional investigations confirming much of what he had exposed, Daleiden and his team have been the only ones to face serious legal repercussions.
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THE HEALER: PAUL MCHUGH AT 90
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Few scientists have made greater contributions to unraveling the mysteries of our complex inner lives than Paul McHugh; few men of such eminence have suffered such calumnies from critics who haven’t one-fifth of his intellectual wattage or one-tenth of his moral courage. Read More
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MARY HASSON’S TESTIMONY ON MICHIGAN GIRLS SPORTS BILL
EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson presented testimony to the Michigan State Senate Committee on Education and Career Readiness on SB 218, which provides for single-sex high school athletics, determined on the basis of biological sex. Read More
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INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW T. WALKER: WHAT IS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
In an interview with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker discusses his new book Liberty for All. Read More
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WHAT HAPPENS IN GERMANY, REVISITED
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
To what degree have the current Holy Father’s good intentions, and the ambiguity embedded in his meaning of “synodality,” fed the turmoil his papacy now faces in Germany? Read More
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DRUG QUALITY “TRUMPS” DRUG PRICING
By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
Forbes
There is an enormous national security risk to relying on geopolitical adversaries like China for America’s life-saving drugs. Read More
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REFUGEES HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY IN THEIR HOMELANDS, TOO. HOW CAN WE MAKE IT SAFER FOR THEM TO DO SO?
By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
America Magazine
Many people are in desperate situations but do not want to leave their countries. We need to find ways to help them. Read More
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TODAY’S SLAVE TRADERS GET BOTOX
By EPPC Fellow Carrie Gress
The Stream
Celebrities, politicians, journalists make it clear that without abortion, we can only be headed to The Handmaid’s Tale. But at some point, we need to pull back the curtain a bit more and expose the lies delivered by the silver-tongued and perfectly groomed. Read More
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In her new book Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology, EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering unmasks “Woke” ideology by examining its history, major players, premises, and tactics, showing us that “Wokeness” at its core is an ideology of rupture. Indeed, it is an ideology with fundamentalist and even cult-like characteristics that is on a collision course with Christianity.
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NO, INSTITUTIONALIZATION WILL NOT END WOKENESS. ONLY UTTERLY DENYING IT POWER WILL.
By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
Wokeness must be opposed in order to be defeated, and Americans must be presented with a better vision of how to live, and how to respond to injustice. Read More
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HERE ARE THE SPENDING CUTS THAT ALL REPUBLICANS CAN GET BEHIND
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The House Republican Study Committee’s alternative budget may be too libertarian-inspired to serve as the template for GOP policy, but that doesn’t mean that a suitable budget for the emerging conservative-populist alliance shouldn’t include big cuts in federal spending that both traditional conservatives and populists can endorse. Read More
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On the latest episode of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good is joined by Robert P. Jones and journalist Jon Ward to discuss Robert's book White Too Long, and the complicated story of race and the American church.
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