VIDEO: HOW BIG TECH CENSORS RELIGIOUS VOICES,
AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK
Big Tech’s censorship of conservative voices and speech has only been increasing, particularly as applied to religious voices and organizations. In this special online event from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and the Napa Legal Institute, EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell interviews EPPC President Ryan. T. Anderson, EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman, and Napa Legal Institute Vice President Josh Holdenried on their own experiences with Big Tech’s censorship, as well as overall trends and patterns in how religious voices are being targeted. They also discuss what religious organizations and individuals can do to protect themselves, as well as possible policy solutions to Big Tech’s censorship.
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On Thursday, September 23, in D.C., EPPC and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions are partnering to host an event featuring a discussion of Robert P. George and EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson’s seminal National Affairs essay “ The Baby and the Bathwater: Toward a Recovery of the American Idea.”
At the event, Dr. George and Dr. Anderson will deliver remarks based on their 2019 essay, and then sit for a conversation with EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis and James Madison Program Communications Coordinator Antonin Scalia.
Space for this event is limited. Registration is free and required.
Learn more and register here.
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WORKING AMERICANS ARE SPEAKING. ARE POLITICIANS LISTENING?
By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
Newsweek
For a “populist” agenda to be more than a noisy veneer on pre-existing preferences, partisans of the right and left need to recognize the distance between their favored narratives and the ones that keep working-class Americans up at night. Read More
(This op-ed is adapted from Mr. Brown’s concluding essay in a new e-book collection of the Edgerton Essays, a joint project of American Compass and EPPC, featuring working-class Americans sharing their perspectives on what they wish policymakers knew about the challenges facing their families and communities.)
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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, STARE DECISIS, AND DOBBS
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan
National Review Online
Ed Whelan explains how Chief Justice Roberts’s jurisprudential principles should lead him to overturn Roe v. Wade. [Post 1 | Post 2]
(See also his response to a law professor’s overt plea to Justice Kavanaugh to “become the new Kennedy.”)
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WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO OVERTURN ROE
By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things
Overturning Roe and Casey would not only protect the innocent, but also affirm the truth about humanity and remind us of our innate obligations to others. Read More
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THE HISTORY OF THE CASE THAT COULD TOPPLE ROE
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
The pro-life movement has been urging the Court to remake its abortion jurisprudence, root and branch, for decades. And in Dobbs, Mississippi has offered the justices a prime opportunity to do just that. Read More
(See also Ms. DeSanctis’s piece detailing how “Planned Parenthood has quietly begun expanding into a new arena: hormone therapy for individuals with gender dysphoria.”)
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WANTED: A CATHOLIC CHAIM POTOK
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Chaim Potok’s novels are intensely Jewish and deeply American in a way that hasn’t really been replicated by U.S. Catholic authors. American Catholicism could use a Chaim Potok today. Read More
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE “LAY MOMENT”?
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
The mission of the Church is not the responsibility of the diocesan pastoral center or some committee in the parish. It can’t be delegated or outsourced or professionalized. The mission belongs to all of us. Read More
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A WORK OF INTRICATE THREADS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
Andrée Emery was a woman of extraordinary intellect and zeal, who quietly counted some of the Catholic greats of the last century as friends, and spent a lifetime mending, connecting, and stitching together hearts searching for God. Read More
(See also Mr. Maier’s piece highlighting two new books by Catholic women authors that “deserve generous praise and a wide popular audience.”)
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HOW THE FDA’S LACK OF TRANSPARENCY UNDERMINES PUBLIC TRUST
By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
Forbes
As the arbiters of drug safety and efficacy, we all entrust the FDA to conduct comprehensive reviews of data. In turn, the FDA ought to embrace the public’s legitimate concern and welcome scientific discussion regarding its decisions. Read More
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CONSERVATISM DOESN’T MEAN PUTTING WHOREHOUSES IN BOYS’ POCKETS
By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
Conservatism is about preserving the true sources of human flourishing in this life — family, faith, and community — rather than tearing them down in the name of liberal ideology. Read More
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THE DEMOCRATIC RIFT BETWEEN PROGRESSIVES AND MODERATES IS UNRESOLVABLE
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The irresistible force of progressive wants will meet the immovable object of moderate desires. Which gives way and when will shape the future of our politics for years to come. Read More
(See also Mr. Olsen’s column observing that European countries are demonstrating “the best approach to the pandemic while maintaining high levels of freedom.”)
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