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** BIDEN AND BECERRA ARE MAKING YOU FUND ABORTION, INC. (AGAIN)
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino
National Review Online
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President Biden and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra displayed their abortion extremism yet again this Monday when the administration repealed a Trump-era regulation governing the federal family-planning grant program known as Title X.
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** A RADICAL AND REVEALING ABORTION BILL
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
World Magazine
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No language can give an adequate description of the moral hideousness of the abortion bill recently passed with a party-line vote in the House of Representatives. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE BODY IS MORE THAN A TOOL
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By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things
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As the amicus brief filed in the Dobbs case on behalf of more than five hundred women athletes shows, Cartesianism alive and well today on the left, evident in everything from transgenderism to women’s athletics and the legal arguments surrounding abortion. Read More ([link removed])
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** “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” POLICIES HAVE NO PLACE IN HEALTH CARE
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison
NH Journal
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America tried “separate but equal” policies once before, and just like then, they have no place today in health care. Read More ([link removed])
(Read more about the complaint ([link removed]) EPPC has filed with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of a New Hampshire resident whom the state prohibited from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine solely because of his race.)
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** THE REAL THREAT OF THE TECH REVOLUTION
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By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
World Magazine
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Big Tech is making big changes to the way we think about ourselves and others. Read More ([link removed])
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** PODCAST: PATRICK T. BROWN ON PRO-FAMILY ECONOMICS AND WHAT WORKING-CLASS PARENTS REALLY WANT
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EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown joined the Minnesota Catholic Conference’s “Bridge Builder” podcast to discuss his recent piece for the New York Times titled “Why Working-Class Parents Don’t Buy What D.C. Is Selling ([link removed]) .” He discussed what pro-family economic policies should focus on and what working-class parents across the country are saying about current policy proposals. Click here ([link removed]) or above to watch or listen.
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** BIDEN’S POLLING NUMBERS ARE EVEN WORSE THAN THEY APPEAR
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Democrats are rightly worried about President Biden’s poor job approval ratings. A closer look at his ratings among independents shows Democrats should be even more worried than they are. Read More ([link removed])
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** MCAULIFFE DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM BIDEN AS VIRGINIA POLLS TIGHTEN
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Virginia’s gubernatorial election, coming as it does in the year immediately following a presidential race, tends to flip in the opposite direction of whichever party is in the White House. With less than a month to go, the race between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin is looking closer than ever. Read More ([link removed])
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** VIDEO: AARON KHERIATY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF OUR PANDEMIC RESPONSE
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EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty joined the podcast Feudal Future with hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky of Chapman University, along with fellow guest Ross Elliot, Chairman of the Urban Land Institute of Australia, who provided a helpful perspective of what’s happening down under.
In the interview, the participants discussed the psychological impact of Covid-19 and how governments are managing it. Dr. Kheriaty also discussed vaccine mandates and other coercive measures, with reference to his legal case against the University of California mandate. (Click here ([link removed]) for his latest update on the situation, in which UC has placed Dr. Kheriaty on “Investigatory Leave” for his not complying with the vaccine mandate.)
See also Dr. Kheriaty’s appearance on Fox Business’s “Kennedy” ([link removed]) to discuss Colorado’s new COVID protocol that denies organs to unvaccinated transplant recipients.
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** HADLEY ARKES’S STRAW-MAN ARGUMENT FOR A ‘BETTER ORIGINALISM’ ON ROE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan
National Review Online
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The proposition that Supreme Court justices should rely on their own moral convictions in interpreting the Constitution is both unsound in principle and likely to be harmful in practice. Read More ([link removed])
(See also his follow-on reply to Professor Arkes’s response ([link removed]) .)
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** A CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN BEHIND THE PLATE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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The late Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers was a Catholic gentleman and a great ballplayer, and an exemplar of the kind of professional athlete to whom parents once directed their children as a role model. Read More ([link removed])
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** ON BEING HOPEFUL – AND HAPPY – WARRIORS
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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As Christians, we always have hope. It is not a hope for worldly success, or even that we will live to see the ecclesial (and social and political and cultural) renewal we hope will come. It is the hope that comes from knowing that however grim the battle, the war has already been won. Read More ([link removed])
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** OUR REPUBLIC IS GRAVELY SICK. A NEW POLL CONFIRMS IT.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Democrats and Republicans harbor hatred for members of the opposing party in nearly equal measures, and both view anti-democratic practices with nearly equal regard. Read More ([link removed])
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** YOU’RE NEVER PROGRESSIVE ENOUGH
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
World Magazine
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The ACLU’s editing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals an ever-shifting ideology. Read More ([link removed])
This week, EPPC’s Faith Angle Forum hosted 19 distinguished journalists from around the country in Napa, CA, for its first Faith Angle “West.” Building on 22 years of Faith Angle Forum gatherings on the East Coast, this first-of-its-kind event primarily featured mainstream journalists at outlets west of the Mississippi. Faith Angle director Josh Good moderated sessions on American polarization and opportunity, religion and race in America, and faith and mental health in an “iGen” world. Look for videos, transcripts, and other short highlights from this event in future editions of the EPPC Briefly.
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