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** DON’T BAN WOKE SCHOOL-LIBRARY BOOKS, BALANCE THEM
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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Woke elites are only too eager to paint parents pushing back at woke excess in our schools as intolerant book-burners. Why not turn the tables by reviewing school libraries for leftist advocacy books, then balancing them with a more conservative point of view?
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Augusto Del Noce (d. 1989) ranked as one of Europe’s leading public intellectuals and cultural critics. His seminal text, The Problem of Atheism, has never gone out of print in Italy, his homeland. A committed Christian and distinguished philosopher, he flirted with Communism as a counterweight to his nation’s fascism in the years before the Second World War. The love affair didn’t last. He spent his postwar career deconstructing Marxism and its toxic effects. But he also offered keen insights into the roots and rapid rise of practical atheism in the West.
On January 5, The Problem of Atheism ([link removed]) will appear in English for the first time. In the video above, Prof. Carlo Lancellotti, Del Noce’s translator and an expert in Del Noce’s thought, joins EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., author of a forthcoming book on Del Noce, and EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman, author of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, for a discussion of Del Noce’s book, his work, and his enduring importance ([link removed]) . EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier moderates the discussion.
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** THE MUSIC OF THE SEASON
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things
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Once upon a time, in a saner, more humane age, the faraway Age of Faith, the joy and beauty of the season didn’t need to be manufactured, or hawked, or bought, or turned into kitsch. Read More ([link removed])
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** REJOICE, INDEED!
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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We rejoice during Advent as an expression of gratitude for the wondrous and unmerited gift of the Incarnation. But our rejoicing is not only a response to the gift of salvation; it is an imitation of the Father, who rejoices over us. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE VATICAN’S UNREAD NEWSPAPER AND THE U.S. BISHOPS
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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The correspondents and editors of L’Osservatore Romano, among others, seem confused about what the U.S. bishops’ teaching document on the Eucharist really says. Read More ([link removed])
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** AUSTRIAN CATHOLICS LAUNCH PUBLIC ROSARY IN RESPONSE TO LOCKDOWNS
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By EPPC Fellow Jennifer Bryson
Crisis
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The new Austria Prays initiative has historical inspiration, an approach to the current crisis of pandemic-related politics, and aspects of intra-Catholic collaboration that offer Americans something worth considering. Read More ([link removed])
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** JAPAN’S VACCINATION POLICY: NO FORCE, NO DISCRIMINATION
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By EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty
Brownstone Institute
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Other nations would do well to follow Japan’s balanced and ethical approach to Covid vaccination. Read More ([link removed])
** TWO AMICUS BRIEFS FILED BY EPPC SCHOLARS IN FEDERAL COURT
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This week, EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson and EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson filed an amicus curiae brief in Tingley v. Ferguson, a case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a law in Washington state that effectively mandates that therapists serving minors use a “gender-affirmation-only” approach and that denies effective psychotherapy to minors seeking psychological help to explore alternative pathways, including the possibility of desisting from a transgender identity. Learn more about this case and read the brief here. ([link removed])
Also this week, EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a second amici brief in Dr. A. v. Hochul—a case challenging the lack of religious exemptions in New York’s vaccine mandate—this time in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Learn more about this case and read the brief here. ([link removed])
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** IT’S TIME TO ENTERTAIN THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE BUILD BACK BETTER BILL WON’T PASS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Most pundits seem to be operating under the assumption that President Biden’s Build Back Better program will eventually become law. But given developments in the past week, it might be time to start seriously considering the chance that BBB is DOA. Read More ([link removed])
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** IT’S TIME FOR NEWSPAPERS TO GET THEIR FAIR SHARE
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By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell
National Review Online
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Big Tech companies are monopolizing papers’ digital-ad revenue. But new litigation offers a chance to even the playing field. Read More ([link removed])
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** JOY BEHAR ACCIDENTALLY ADMITS SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES WERE RIGHT ABOUT SEX
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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Many on the left are belatedly realizing the truths that sex isn’t just recreation and there is no substitute for a healthy family culture. Social conservatives should be heartened. Read More ([link removed])
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Please join us before the 2022 March for Life for a breakfast, panel discussion, and book signing co-hosted by Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
The panel will feature EPPC Fellows Erika Bachiochi, Carter Snead (Director of the Notre Dame de Nicola Center), and Carl R. Trueman, in conversation about their most recent books, moderated by EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito. Introductory remarks will be given by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson.
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** NEW PODCAST EPISODES:
SEARCHING FOR MEDICINE’S SOUL
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[link removed] the latest episode ([link removed]) of EPPC’s podcast Searching for Medicine’s Soul (Listen on: Apple ([link removed]) | Spotify ([link removed]) | Stitcher ([link removed]) ), New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Rothstein to discuss his new book The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery ([link removed]) . They address the difficulties of living with chronic illness and the weaknesses of modern medicine and the medical establishment.
And in another recent episode ([link removed]) (Listen on: Apple ([link removed]) | Spotify ([link removed]) | Stitcher ([link removed]) ), Dr. Kristin Collier joins Dr. Rothstein to discuss primary care, spirituality, and burnout in the medical profession.
** Recent Media Appearances Featuring EPPC Scholars
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* VIDEO: Erika Bachiochi on “The Meaning of Equality in America” ([link removed]) (National Constitution Center)
* AUDIO: Roger Severino Discusses SCOTUS Ruling on Texas Heartbeat Act ([link removed]) (“Issues, Etc.” podcast)
* AUDIO: Ed Whelan on Texas Heartbeat Act Cases ([link removed]) (“Amarica’s Constitution” podcast)
* AUDIO: Mary Rice Hasson on Gender Ideology and Its Influence on School Culture ([link removed]) (“Religious Freedom Matters” podcast)
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