Dear Colleague, 


You may be interested in the most recent commentary from the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society and its allies:


Civil Society Report: How Expressive Individualism Threatens Civil Society <[link removed]>
The Heritage Foundation
Carl Trueman, PhD
A society’s understanding of the notion of “self” has broad implications for the cultural, moral, and political spheres. The modern notion of self, which can be called “expressive individualism,” to use Robert Bellah’s term, lies at the heart of current cultural conflicts, including abortion, pornography, the ethics of life and death, radical racial politics, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. Expressive individualism holds that human beings are defined by their individual psychological core, and that the purpose of life is allowing that core to find social expression in relationships. Anything that challenges it is deemed oppressive. Building a society based on a true understanding of the human person begins with an acknowledgement of the situation in which we find ourselves.
 
Anti-Semitism Is an Attack on American Principles <[link removed]>
National Review
Joseph Loconte, Director, Center for American Studies
Anti-Semitism is more than a hate crime. It represents a unique assault on America’s founding principles of equality and freedom. Despite the manifest violation of these principles from the start of the American experiment — the existence of slavery and the treatment of Native Americans — the United States created a civic culture that would regard Jews as equal citizens. Outside of Israel, America would become the most welcoming home to Jews of any nation in the world.
 
These Transgender Individuals Regret Transitioning. Parents Need to Hear Their Stories. <[link removed]>
The Daily Signal
Nicole Russell, Contributor
It’s becoming increasingly common to hear from detransitioners, transgender people who took cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers—or even had surgery—but changed their mind and began living as their biological sex again. Their stories are essential for society to hear.
 
Louisiana Teacher: Why I Spoke Out Against Pushing Gender Ideology <[link removed]>
The Daily Signal
Virginia Allen, News Producer
At a recent school board meeting, Louisiana high school teacher Jonathan Koeppel played an audio clip from an education app the school uses, called “BrainPOP,” in which students—not unlike these impressionable youths—were being told to refer to other individuals as “they” if the student didn't know that individual's "preferred" pronouns.


Sincerely,
DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society
Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity
The Heritage Foundation

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