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** BIDEN AND BECERRA KILL DEMOCRATIC NORMS IN RUSH TO FUND BIG ABORTION
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison
National Review Online
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The unprecedented politicization of OMB and HHS rulemaking processes under President Biden and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra violates long-standing agency norms and undercuts the democratic process.
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(Ms. Morrison discusses this story and more in her recent appearance ([link removed]) on the South Dakota Catholic Conference’s “Faith & Politics” podcast.)
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** TOO MANY REPUBLICANS MISUNDERSTAND REAGAN’S LEGACY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Republicans debating what they should stand for often invoke Ronald Reagan as the ideal standard-bearer for the party. It’s a shame, then, that so many of them misunderstand the man. Read More ([link removed])
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EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson appeared in a short video produced by EDIFY on Amazon’s decision to stop selling his book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. Dr. Anderson discusses the implications of Amazon’s decision on the free discussion of ideas, on gender ideology, and on the future of book publishing.
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** WHY THE TRANSGENDER REVOLUTION CAN’T TRANSCEND HUMAN NATURE
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
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A new report from Europe confirms males have an innate advantage in sports. Read More ([link removed])
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** JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS AND VACCINE MANDATES
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By EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty
Substack
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The 1905 Supreme Court Case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts is often cited to justify vaccine mandates and other Covid emergency measures. But what did that original case actually determine? Read More ([link removed])
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EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty appeared on Fox News’s “Ingraham Angle” with guest host Raymond Arroyo to discuss Dr. Kheriaty’s lawsuit challenging the University of California system’s vaccine mandate, and his subsequent suspension by UC. Click here ([link removed]) to watch or to read a transcript of this interview, and click here ([link removed]) to listen to Dr. Kheriaty’s appearance on the “Kennedy Saves the World” podcast on this story.
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** ON NOT BUYING INTO THE MYTHOLOGY OF “PRESTIGE” UNIVERSITIES
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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The best of Catholic liberal arts education prepares students for any intellectual or professional endeavor—and does so in a far healthier environment than so-called “prestige schools.” Read More ([link removed])
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** THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ABSOLUTE ACADEMIC FREEDOM
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
Public Discourse
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The official moral relativism of absolute academic freedom makes universities self-negating institutions. No wonder many student activists are eager to fashion and enforce new norms and taboos: they realize, however inchoately, that a community of inquiry and instruction must also be one of practice, and that the liberal university fails to integrate these elements. Read More ([link removed])
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** RACE AND FRIENDSHIP AT HARVARD, 1963
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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The Last Negroes at Harvard is a wary, complicated, handsomely judicious book smoldering with a racial grievance that is both soothed and exacerbated by the condescension and privilege that Harvard lavished on the author and 17 other black students. Read More ([link removed])
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** RESPONDING TO PERSECUTION
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By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Plough
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Where Western Christians would stand and fight, Eastern Christians have learned to endure – or flee. Read More ([link removed])
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** TIME FOR AN EXODUS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
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By EPPC Kate O'Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson
Our Catholic Mission
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A good education forms the whole person: intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual. But today’s public schools promote a curriculum that is radically antagonistic to Judeo-Christian morality and anthropology. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHY THE LEFT HATES THE GENEROUS GIVERS WHO KEEP AMERICA’S LIGHTS ON
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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The local gentry has its flaws, but the rest of us have many reasons to prefer it to the ruling national elite. Read More ([link removed])
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** ZONING EMERGING AS A POLITICAL ISSUE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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Control over zoning is a core function of local government, which means that federal and state efforts to choke off local control are direct assaults on our federalist system. Read More ([link removed])
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