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** PARENTS CAN SAVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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The parents of Loudoun County, Va., stand at the forefront of a movement with the power to reverse the decline of our constitutional republic, our traditions of liberty, our faith in ourselves, and ultimately, Western civilization itself. It is no accident that the weight of this struggle has fallen upon the shoulders of parents.
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** PROGRESSIVES CRY “RACISM” TO EXCUSE DEMOCRATIC LOSSES IN VIRGINIA
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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Republican victories in Virginia were not the result of “white supremacy.” Read More ([link removed])

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** NEW JERSEY’S ELECTION RESULTS SHOULD TERRIFY DEMOCRATS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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If the Republican sweep in Virginia wasn’t enough to terrify Democrats, New Jersey’s results should definitely do the trick. The state’s shockingly close gubernatorial race is evidence that Americans of all stripes have turned on the Biden-led Democrats and, contrary to what so many on the left claim, don’t believe the GOP is morally unfit to govern. Read More ([link removed])


** George Weigel Delivers 20th
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This week, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel gave his 20th William E. Simon Lecture, titled “The Pope We All Need: The Papacy and the Crisis of the West.” Click below to watch a video of the lecture, and click here to view photos ([link removed]) from the event.
[See also Mr. Weigel’s latest weekly column, “On John Paul II’s 75th Anniversary ([link removed]) .”]
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** NOTRE DAME STUDENTS GO TO WAR OVER “WOKE” CATHOLICISM
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis and EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
National Review Online

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The University of Notre Dame has failed to articulate the truth of Catholic Church teaching on human sexuality and gender identity. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHO BENEFITS FROM THE STATUS QUO?
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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For more than 40 years, President Biden (and others) have used the interminable “dialogue” in the Church as a pretense for using their Catholic faith as political cover for promoting abortion. The freshness of that dialogue turned rancid long ago. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION HAS STALLED. BLAME ROE V. WADE.
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
America Magazine

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If the “gender revolution” has stalled—elevating women in the workplace without a concomitant elevation for the work mothers and fathers do in the home—constitutionalizing the right to abortion shares a good deal of the blame. Read More ([link removed])

GEORGE WEIGEL DISCUSSES PRESIDENT BIDEN, POPE FRANCIS, ABORTION ON MSNBC’S “ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS”
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RYAN T. ANDERSON ON SUPREME COURT DENIAL OF APPEAL FROM CATHOLIC HOSPITAL

EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson appeared on EWTN News Nightly to discuss the Supreme Court’s denial of an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued after refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a woman who identifies as transgender.

Dr. Anderson discusses the potential implications of the case and whether the Court will eventually need to address the contention between religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws, as well as what states can do to better protect the freedom to practice good medicine.
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** THE FDA SHOULDN’T CUT CORNERS ON CHILD VAX SAFETY
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By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
National Review Online

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An advisory panel adopts a highly casual attitude toward approving a vaccine whose effects on children are unclear. Read More ([link removed])

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** BIDEN’S VACCINE MANDATES MIGHT JUST BACKFIRE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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President Biden’s job approval ratings have been sinking for months as voters increasingly see him as out of touch with their priorities and values. The coming clash over vaccine mandates might be another area where the president has misread the public temperament. Read More ([link removed])

QUOTED: Roger Severino in Washington Post on Biden Vaccine Mandate

EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino was quoted in a Washington Post story on the Biden administration’s announcement that it would begin implementing its vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees on January 4:

“I don’t think they properly weighed all the risks and benefits of doing this and are using a shotgun approach and not a scalpel when infections are dropping and vaccinations are already continuing to rise. All the indicators are that the grave danger has passed.”

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EPPC Scholars Offer Public Comments on Religious Liberty Concerns in Social Services Programs and Vaccines

On Wednesday, EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino submitted a letter ([link removed]) for the official record at the Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee of House Committee on Education and Labor, for its hearing “A Call to Action: Modernizing the Community Services Block Grant.” The letter addresses the “grave religious liberty and fairness interests at stake” in a proposal to reauthorize the CSBG program.

Also this week, EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison submitted a public comment ([link removed]) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, urging the committee “to consider ways to incentivize, procure, and require production of vaccines that do not have connections to aborted fetal cell lines so that everyone in the U.S. that desires a vaccine to prevent serious disease in themselves and others can receive one without violating their conscience or religious beliefs.”
VIDEO: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on Vaccine Mandates, His Lawsuit, and More

[link removed] a two-part interview with the “American Thought Leaders” program, EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty discusses vaccine mandates, his situation at the University of California, public health policy, and the threat of a biosecurity surveillance regime.

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** LESSONS FROM THE REFORMATION’S PAMPHLET WAR
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By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things

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Twitter is both a symptom and a contributing cause of the collapse of rationality we see all around us. And sadly, too many Christians are willing accomplices in this cultural disaster. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Dr. Trueman’s piece ([link removed]) for WORLD Opinions on how the power struggle represented by the controversy over Dave Chappelle’s Netflix comedy special “will be played out in the church and Christian organizations in the near future.”)

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** THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD REVIEW SECTION 230’S INTERPRETATION
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell
Newsweek

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Under current judicial precedent, Section 230 has been interpreted in a way that gives blanket immunity to internet platforms, to the point that tech companies face little or no liability from even their own wrongdoing. The proper interpretation of Section 230 is thus long overdue for review by the Supreme Court—and now there is an opportunity. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHAT THE BUILD BACK BETTER ACT WOULD MEAN FOR FAMILIES
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
The Dispatch

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Childcare subsidies would dramatically reshape the landscape for parents of young children—perhaps in ways its authors don’t intend. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Mr. Brown’s USA Today op-ed ([link removed]) , co-authored with Brad Wilcox, on marriage penalties in the Build Back Better plan, as well as a report ([link removed]) by Mr. Brown that was recently published by the Joint Economic Committee on the influence that higher education, and particularly student debt, has on family formation.)

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** WHAT MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIANS WANT
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By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
First Things

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Maybe Western people are weary of reports on Middle Eastern Christians. But Janine di Giovanni’s The Vanishing is unique because di Giovanni is not seeking a solution, and indeed knows there may not be one. Read More ([link removed])

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** DEFINING “EVANGELICALISM” DOWN
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
American Reformer

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The confusion over the word “evangelicalism” and the ensuing plasticity of the label is truly tragic and leads to unhelpful categorization, theological malpractice, and no small amount of internal strife within evangelical Christianity. Read More ([link removed])

Idle Hands, Distracted Minds

In this video co-sponsored by the Scala Foundation and the University of St. Thomas, Houston, EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier reflects on the vast writings of Sir Roger Scruton (a former EPPC Senior Fellow), and discusses how we can revitalize American culture, in part by understanding the ideas that have given rise to so much meaninglessness in education and pessimism about culture.
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New Podcast Episodes from Faith Angle and Searching for Medicine’s Soul

[link removed] the latest episode of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, Ross Douthat of the New York Times sits down with EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and EPPC Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good ([link removed]) to discuss Ross's newest book, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery. Ross recounts this deeply personal story of loss, wrestling, and overcoming in the midst of a chronic disease, reflecting on how his conviction and rootedness in the Christian story offered strength in the face of pain.

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[link removed] on EPPC’s new podcast Searching for Medicine’s Soul, EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Rothstein talks with Dr. Farr Curlin and Professor Christopher Tollefsen ([link removed]) about their new book The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. They address the purpose of medicine, physician burnout, patient and physician autonomy, conscientious objection, and the future of the profession.
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