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EPPC’S BIG TECH SYMPOSIUM COVERS CENSORSHIP, ANTITRUST, AND MORE

This week, EPPC hosted our Big Tech Symposium, where five members of Congress presented their proposed legislative solutions to censorship and harmful business practices by leading tech companies. Their remarks were followed by panels of distinguished legal scholars and experts who discussed and debated those solutions as applied to Section 230, antitrust law, and common carrier law. Click on the video below to watch the symposium, which also included comments by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell. (The video is marked at each segment of the symposium for ease of viewing.)

INTERVIEW: THE RIGHT IS STILL DIVIDED ON BIG TECH

EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell at National Review Online

In an interview with National Review, EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell takes stock of where conservative thinking is moving on the issue of antitrust, the real harms presented by tech companies, and the possibilities (and dangers) of bipartisanship on this issue. Read More

IN-PERSON EVENT: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN: RECLAIMING A LOST VISION

Have the gains achieved by modern feminists in the political and economic spheres relied on a too-narrow idea of liberty and equality at the expense of a richer understanding of the natural duties that we owe to one another? If so, what are the costs of this, and can the proper foundation of equal rights be reclaimed?

Join us for an in-person event on Tuesday, July 20, at which EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi will offer remarks reflecting on the themes of her new book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision. The book offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States and proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights grounded in our responsibilities.

Click here to register for this event at the CIC website.

The event will be moderated by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and will include responses from Mary Eberstadt and Ashley McGuire. The event will not be live-streamed, but a video will be published after the event concludes.

This event is hosted by the Catholic Information Center and co-sponsored by EPPC and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The book is being published in the de Nicola Center’s book series with University of Notre Dame Press.

THE DELAURO DEMOCRATS AND THE BISHOPS

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

The days are past when the American hierarchy could be cowed by the political and journalistic principalities and powers and the “progressive” Catholic media. Read More

OUR INDEFENSIBLE, UNSUSTAINABLE STATUS QUO

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

Generations of Catholic politicians, President Biden among them, have responded to the gentle pleas of their pastors by growing even farther from Church teaching about the imperative of defending innocent life. Read More

SWING VOTERS ARE FLASHING WARNING SIGNS TO DEMOCRATS

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

New polls show that President Biden and Democrats are starting the summer on much rockier ground in key states and seats than many suspect. Read More

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WHY STATES SHOULD BAR CRT

By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz submitted testimony to the Ohio State Legislature last week regarding a bill that would bar core concepts of critical race theory, and core practices of protest civics, from K-12 education in Ohio. This testimony makes the case for such legislation in general, and for bills inspired by the model Partisanship Out of Civics Act in particular, which combats CRT without violating the First Amendment. Read More

[See also Mr. Kurtz’s piece on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s veto of a bill that “could very easily have allowed CRT to creep back into Florida’s education system.” Mr. Kurtz has led the effort to raise the alarm about such bills.]

‘TRANS MISSION’ RAISES QUESTIONS LGBT ACTIVISTS REFUSE TO ANSWER ABOUT TRANSGENDERING KIDS

By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

The transgender agenda makes extraordinary claims and issues extraordinary demands. These matters should at least be up for debate, but the transgender movement and its powerful supporters have sought to stifle discussion. Read More

REPUBLICANS WOULD ONLY HURT THEMSELVES BY NOT PARTICIPATING IN PELOSI’S JAN. 6 SELECT COMMITTEE

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

Republicans rightly worry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proposed select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will descend into a partisan, anti-Donald Trump witch hunt. But the best way to minimize the chances of that happening is to participate in the investigation. Read More

MEET THE FLYOVER WOMEN POP CULTURE IGNORES

By EPPC Fellow Carrie Gress
The Federalist

Fly-over women are the moms and daughters and wives and sisters and friends the media overlooks because they are religious or frumpy or don’t have sexy day jobs. But mostly, the issue is that they don’t believe in abortion and they do believe in the sanctity of marriage. Read More

THE ‘RIGHT TO CHOOSE’ WHAT, JEN PSAKI?

By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

Jen Psaki and Joe Biden, like the tremendous majority of those who support legal abortion, are understandably reticent when it comes to questions of what exactly occurs in an abortion procedure, what exactly it means for a woman to exercise her “right to choose,” and who exactly is dwelling inside of a pregnant mother. Read More

THE U.S. CAN’T SAVE HONG KONG. BUT IT MUST KEEP THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM ALIVE.

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

China’s crushing of the pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily shows that this Communist leopard will not change its spots. The West, and especially the United States, should not sit idly by. Read More

ED WHELAN ON TODAY’S
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

At National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan analyzes this morning’s Supreme Court decisions in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta and Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.

In this post, he explains the ruling in the Americans for Prosperity Foundation case, which he calls “a sweeping victory for the First Amendment rights of charitable organizations and their donors.”

In this post, he summarizes Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Brnovich, and in this post, he covers Justice Kagan’s dissent in the case.

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