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In The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision — published today by Notre Dame Press — EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others.

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** BOOK EXCERPT: RECLAIMING FEMINISM FROM THE LOGIC OF THE MARKET
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
Newsweek

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All human beings are created with equal dignity and worth. But such dignity finds its true nobility when, as earlier women's rights advocates well understood, each of us is encouraged and empowered by our families and our communities to seek moral excellence in all we do. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE ORIGINAL FEMINIST PLAN FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND SEXUAL INTEGRITY
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
Public Discourse

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In her new book, Erika Bachiochi presents a compelling vision of female equality and happiness that embraces a woman’s capacity for childbearing and encourages sexual virtue and strong marriages as an antidote to difficulties that abortion can never hope to solve. Read More ([link removed])

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

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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.
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** THE BISHOPS, BIDEN, AND COMMUNION
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By EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson
The Wall Street Journal

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Clarity on sacramental and moral theology can be viewed as politicization by politicians and the millions of Americans they represent only because two generations of Americans have been poorly catechized. The task for the bishops is to rebuild basic moral and sacramental coherence among the faithful. Read More ([link removed])

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** POPE FRANCIS AND THE LIFE ISSUES
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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Media distortions are not simply annoying; they can have serious public effects. It’s worth remembering the quite robust terms in which Pope Francis has condemned abortion. Read More ([link removed])

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** SYNODALITY IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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Concerns about the pitfalls or potential abuses of synodality ought to be acknowledged, but it would be a terrible mistake to dismiss the promise of synodality out of hand. Read More ([link removed])

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** CONSERVATIVES AGREE BIG TECH IS A PROBLEM, BUT SPLIT ON THE RIGHT SOLUTION
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell
The Federalist

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Something must be done to stop Big Tech censorship, but what? Here’s how lawmakers differ when it comes to antitrust law, Section 230 reform, and common carrier law. Read More ([link removed])

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** STOPPING K-12 INDOCTRINATION IS RIGHT
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By EPPC Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

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The overall effort to prevent Critical Race Theory indoctrination is both necessary and justified. It is CRT that is un-American, not efforts to prevent the imposition of this pernicious orthodoxy on schoolchildren. Read More ([link removed])

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** HOW CONSERVATIVES COULD SOLVE THE CHILD CARE CRUNCH
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
Newsweek

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If conservatives are serious about opposing progressives' prescriptions for big-government solutions to child care affordability, they need to come up with proactive ideas beyond just tax credits. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHY CONSERVATIVES SHOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT CHILD TAX CREDITS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Some conservatives have argued that increased child tax credits will make recipients more dependent on government largesse. But Americans have been dependent on government for decades — and they like it. Read More ([link removed])

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** OUR RAINBOW RELIGION, WHICH LETS US BECOME AS GODS
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By EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering
The Stream

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Making ourselves gods might feel like magic at first, but it ends in despair. We simply are not made to be gods, and to attempt that requires too much denial of reality, too many mutilated bodies, and too many competing wills. Read More ([link removed])

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** YOU’RE BEING MANIPULATED
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic

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Political partisans are using social media to divide, dominate, disorient, and ultimately demoralize the people on the other side. Read More ([link removed])

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** PERSUASION OR DISCIPLESHIP? CONFIDENCE, CREATION, AND RECONSIDERING BIBLICAL NATURAL LAW AS A STRATEGY FOR CHRISTIAN CULTURAL RENEWAL
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Countermoves (Carl F.H. Henry Institute)

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The West is in the throes of a convulsive death rattle, and there is to be no renovation to Western order apart from a rehabilitation of Christian natural law ethics. But before we seek to persuade others, we need to be persuaded ourselves. Read More ([link removed])

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** REVISITING HARRIS FUNERAL HOMES’ COMPELLING GOVERNMENT INTEREST ANALYSIS AFTER FULTON
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison
National Review Online

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After Fulton, the Sixth Circuit’s compelling interest analysis in Harris Funeral Homes cannot stand. Courts cannot credit the alleged compelling government interest of non-discrimination by ignoring the constitutional guarantee of free exercise. Read More ([link removed])

[See also her piece for the FedSoc Blog ([link removed]) on a proposed HHS rule “that would, among other changes, reverse Trump-era insurance regulations requiring separate billing and collection of payments for certain abortion services.”]

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** A NEW AMERICAN IDENTITY IS NEEDED, ONE THAT UNITES US EVEN AS IT HONORS OUR DIFFERENCES
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Americans celebrated their nation’s birthday this weekend with outdoor grills and fireworks galore. A new book, however, reminds us how difficult it is to precisely define the American nation itself. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE LEFT SHOULDN’T GET AWAY WITH CONSTANT FLOPPING
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

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Whatever the issue, from immigration to education to law enforcement, there is a parade of people taking a dive and crying foul, insisting the other side isn’t just wrong, but bigoted. Read More ([link removed])

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** 2021 SUMMER READING LIST
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few boons of the recent past. Here are some suggestions for summer enrichment. Read More ([link removed])

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EPPC Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good took part in an online panel titled “Faith in the News? Christianity and Journalism in the New Media Economy,” hosted by Anselm House in collaboration with Veritas Forum and The Augustine Collective. Click the video above to watch this event.

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