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** COVID MANDATES PREVENT AMERICANS FROM GETTING BACK IN THE GAME
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By EPPC Fellow Aaron Kheriaty (with Jonathan Isaac of the NBA’s Orlando Magic)
Fox News
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The same essential people who courageously worked on the frontlines defending us during COVID now face bullying from their peers and no support from the government of a country that was founded on freedom.
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(Click here to view a Twitter thread ([link removed]) by EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan with his instant analysis of today’s Supreme Court ruling on the OSHA vaccine mandate.)


** EVENT POSTPONED: Being Human: A Panel Discussion with the Authors of Three Books on Identity
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Unfortunately, we've had to postpone our event “Being Human: A Panel Discussion with the Authors of Three Books on Identity ([link removed]) ,” previously scheduled to take place before next week’s March for Life. The various Covid restrictions imposed recently would have made it impossible for us to host the event in the way we had planned.

We’ll announce a new date for this event in the near future, so please stay tuned ([link removed]) .

Last February, Amazon delisted EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally ([link removed]) after having sold the book for three years. Learn more about this story, and the dangers of Big Tech censorship, in this video from the Daily Signal:
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** HOW MARXISM ‘WON’ THE WAR OF IDEAS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Wall Street Journal
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The late Italian writer Augusto Del Noce saw Marxism’s ironic triumph coming in the West. Read More ([link removed])

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** INTERVIEW: NOELLE MERING ON THE WOKE MOVEMENT AND CRITICAL THEORY
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The Catholic World Report
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EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering, author of Awake, Not Woke, talks with the Catholic World Report about the woke movement and Critical Race Theory. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE STRANGE FATE OF HAMILTON AND HARRY POTTER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things
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The deeper cause of the shifting morals of popular culture is that our society has no stable framework for moral reasoning. It is therefore doomed to constant volatility. Read More ([link removed])

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** WILL TEACHER TRANSPARENCY SINK THE DEMOCRATS?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
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Curriculum-transparency laws are essential, not only for enforcing state laws on CRT, action civics, and other specific topics, but for allowing any meaningful parental say over the content of education. Read More ([link removed])

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** A CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUTH
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
WORLD Opinions

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Christians should give no quarter to falsehoods, whether from right or left. Read More ([link removed])

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** EXCLUSIVE: SEN. TOM COTTON INTRODUCES BILL TO KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S PRISONS
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist

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Male convicts do not belong in women’s prisons, and Sen. Tom Cotton is taking the lead in working to keep them out. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Dr. Blake’s piece for Public Discourse ([link removed]) explaining that the ravages of ideological liberalism, especially the damage done by the sexual revolution to family and community, require active redress.)

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** WHO INVENTED THE INDIVIDUAL?
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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There would be no “individual” and no Western civilization at its finest if Christianity had not redefined the concept of a hero. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHAT’S AT STAKE WITH THE SYNOD?
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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If those directing the Synod at every level of the Church present it in worldly terms – political, bureaucratic, ideological terms – then it will surely become merely that. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Mr. White’s column ([link removed]) arguing that “the consequences for the Church of ultra-mundane and aggressively banal liturgies are impossible to deny.”)

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** NEW JERSEY IS SET TO ‘CODIFY’ UNLIMITED ABORTION
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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A new state law declares abortion a ‘fundamental right’ and creates a pathway for requiring insurers to cover elective abortions. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE LIMITS OF MENTORSHIP
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
National Affairs

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While the desirability of helping youth achieve their full potential is self-evident, even the best of intentions do not guarantee positive outcomes. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Mr. Brown’s piece ([link removed]) for Newsweek summarizing his research paper in National Affairs.)

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** RELIGIOUS LITERACY AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM: A CHARGE TO PUBLIC SERVICE
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By EPPC Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good
Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement

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Journalists will tell richer stories if they can overcome their bias toward or in some cases their ignorance of matters of faith, bringing religious depth to their accounts. Read More ([link removed])

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** CATHOLIC JOURNALISTS CALLED TO REPORT THE TRUTH WITH ‘A CONSUMING PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE’
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
Catholic News Agency

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Never doubt the importance of your work. The vocation of a Catholic journalist is to tell the truth; to bring hope; and to sustain faith. The Church and her people — and through them, the world — urgently need all three. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE EXPERTS ARE FINALLY GRASPING THE REAL REASON FOR INFLATION. NOW, IT’S TIME TO ACT.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The bad news is that inflation is likely to continue for some time. The good news is that at least some experts are finally grasping why inflation is so high: excessive pandemic relief spending. Read More ([link removed])

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** FDA BOTCHES UPDATES TO PRESCRIPTION AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM, LEAVING VULNERABLE AMERICANS WITHOUT CRITICAL MEDICATION
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By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
The Daily Signal

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The Biden administration is not filled with “follow the science” technocrats, but anti-science, ideological busybodies starting at the top. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Dr. Gortler’s piece ([link removed]) describing how FDA leadership continues to block and ignore state-of-the-art alternatives that would likely end outdated and cruel animal testing and speed up investigational drug development.)


** UPCOMING EVENT: Pro-life Movement at a Crossroads
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On Tuesday, January 18, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi will take part in a virtual event exploring the history of the pro-life movement; the context of this moment, as we await the Dobbs decision; and how best to ensure that every child is protected in law and welcomed in life, and that women are respected and supported. This event is sponsored by the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

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The latest episode ([link removed]) of EPPC’s Faith Angle podcast (Listen on: Apple ([link removed]) | Spotify ([link removed]) | Stitcher ([link removed]) ) offers highlights from Faith Angle Europe, a two-day conference of 16 international journalists and 5 speakers in France, with a window into some especially compelling insights that emerged on national populism, anti-Semitism, impact investing and the growth of religion in sub-Saharan Africa, and finally, a big-think conversation about the commonalities faced by creative minorities in a pluralistic world.

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And in 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]) ), EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Rothstein is joined by Dr. Paul McHugh to discuss the purpose of psychiatry and psychiatric overreach in medicine.

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