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** A DISTINCTLY AMERICAN FAMILY POLICY
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
Public Discourse
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Borrowing a family policy prescription from Helsinki or Budapest is bound to disappoint. A distinctly American family policy platform must be seen as expanding choice, not constraining it, and working with our national character, not trying to reshape it, all while understanding family as the essential institution in society, one that stakes an unavoidable claim on our public resources.
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(See also Mr. Brown’s piece summarizing five ways to make America more family-friendly ([link removed]) , as well as his piece co-authored with W. Bradford Wilcox on how the Build Back Better plan for child care has an ugly blind spot ([link removed]) when it comes to faith-based programs.)
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** WHEN ARE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS TO COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES REQUIRED?
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison
National Review Online
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Maine’s flat denial of religious accommodations for employees who object to receiving COVID-19 vaccines is not only unusual, it is unlawful. Read More ([link removed])
(See also her piece on a lawsuit filed by twelve states ([link removed]) opposing new Title X regulations that would take family-planning money away from the states and give it to America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, and her podcast interview ([link removed]) on the Biden administration’s proposed radical changes to Title X.)
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** HOW CONSERVATIVES CAN GET NATIONALISM RIGHT
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Defining the essence of American nationalism is deceptively simple — until one tries to do it. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Olsen’s piece ([link removed]) explaining that, despite favorable results for Republicans in last week’s elections, new polling “shows creating [a] new majority coalition will be harder than many in the party think, especially on economic issues.”)
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** MEDICINE WITHOUT A SOUL
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By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
American Purpose
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Secularized medicine imperils the human ends of the healing arts, warns Charles Camosy in Losing Our Dignity. Read More ([link removed])
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On the latest episode of EPPC’s podcast Searching for Medicine’s Soul ([link removed]) , Charles Camosy joins EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Rothstein to discuss the themes in Losing Our Dignity, including religion and medicine, secularized medicine, moral theology, medical ethics and the conundrum of limited resources in healthcare.
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** A CANDLE FOR ROGER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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Sir Roger Scruton died in January 2020. But he remains our era’s leading philosopher of common sense and the wisdom of lived experience. Read More ([link removed])
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** BISHOPS, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND HOLY COMMUNION: ONCE AGAIN
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops prepares to meet in Baltimore, misconceptions about a proposed conference statement on the eucharistic vitality and integrity of the Church in America abound. Read More ([link removed])
Read EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White’s roundtable interview ([link removed]) with the National Catholic Register on the controversy surrounding President Biden’s recent meeting with Pope Francis.
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** EXCLUSIVE: PRO-LIFE DOCTORS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN PROMOTING “ABORTION-PILL REVERSAL”
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
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A pro-life coalition is encouraging doctors to learn about a safe, effective method for reversing unwanted chemical abortions. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Ms. DeSanctis’s piece ([link removed]) on a new survey reporting that one in five couples have experienced conflict in their relationship related to pornography and that porn use is generally associated with lower relationship quality.)
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** AN AGE OF VIOLATED BOUNDARIES
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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The obliteration of boundaries and norms in the 21st century has released powerful energies that are sometimes creative, sometimes destructive, and often merely bizarre. Read More ([link removed])
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** EVA BRANN ON LIBERAL EDUCATION
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By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Real Clear Education
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In a time that prizes vocational training, on the one hand, and indoctrination masquerading as education, on the other, Eva Brann’s writings can help readers recapture a vision of education that is truly free — free from utilitarian concerns, and a good in itself. Read More ([link removed])
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** ABOVE US ONLY SKY: HOW IDEOLOGY MANIPULATES REALITY & REVERENCE AS THE REMEDY
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By EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering
Religion & Liberty
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To see reality as it is, we must start with the hardest reality to face of all—that of sincerely seeing ourselves. Read More ([link removed])
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** DENYING SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY WON’T MAKE IT POPULAR WITH PARENTS
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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Those pushing a top-down cultural revolution do not want a label, because that makes it harder to delegitimize opposition to their agenda. Read More ([link removed])
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This week, EPPC’s Faith Angle Forum convened its second European gathering ([link removed]) , with 10 European journalists and 7 American journalists for conversations on European anti-semitism, national populism, religion in sub-Saharan Africa and the developing world, and pluralism. Stay tuned for forthcoming session transcripts and videos.
And this week on EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast, Bernard-Henri Lévy sat down with Ed Luce of Financial Times (a Faith Angle Europe presenter) and Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good to discuss BHL’s new book and documentary, “The Will to See.” Listen to the episode here ([link removed]) .
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