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THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND UKRAINE

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Wall Street Journal
While Vladimir Putin is determined to reconstitute the old Soviet Union as a sphere of unchallenged Russian influence, Russian imperialism has a history that long antedates Mr. Putin.
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(See also Mr. Weigel’s column arguing that “Putin’s Russian regime is a danger to the Russian people and the world, and will likely remain so, until the kind of moral and historical reckoning that took place in Germany after World War II takes place in Russia.”)

UKRAINE AND THE WESTERN CONSCIENCE

By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
The idea that Ukrainians might forget or ignore the memory of Russian criminality in their country, for the sake of a dubious peace, is ludicrous. Read More

FOLLOW ED WHELAN ON SCOTUS NEWS

 
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan will offer running commentary on the confirmation battle to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Follow Ed on Twitter and at National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog, where you can read his recent posts on reported contenders Ketanji Brown Jackson and Leondra Kruger. 

THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO DEFUSE SUPREME COURT BATTLES: SCALE BACK THE COURT’S ROLE IN POLITICAL DISPUTES

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
News that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire has predictably sparked discussion of a bitter — if likely futile — battle over the Senate confirmation of his successor. The dreary inevitability of such fights should cause everyone to reconsider their proximate cause: the dramatically expanded role the court plays in our democracy today. Read More

(See also Mr. Olsen’s column explaining why “Democrats are right to be concerned that the upcoming midterm elections could be a disaster.”)

HOW BIDEN-HARRIS IGNORED SCIENCE, POLITICIZED COVID-19 BOOSTERS, AND MISINFORMED THE WORLD

By EPPC Fellow David Gortler
Newsweek
COVID case numbers from December suggest vaccines and boosters did little if anything to slow the spread of Omicron. Despite these findings, the president has continued to scold and belittle Americans who have chosen not to take a vaccine or booster in recent weeks. Read More

LIVING IN A “TRANS” WORLD

By EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman
WORLD Opinions
Jordan Peterson sounds the alarm on lowering standards to pacify progressivism. Read More
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VULGAR CHANTS

By EPPC Resident Scholar James V. Bowman
The New Criterion
The media’s unofficial commissars of the Left have to keep the pressure up on behalf of ideological conformity in order to hold the “woke” coalition together—no matter how disconnected from reality they may be. Read More

DON’T JUST SAY MOTHERHOOD MATTERS, PROVE IT WITH YOUR LIFE

By EPPC Policy Analyst Clare Morell
The Federalist
We mothers should not choose to delegate our main responsibility of parenting our children to others for most of their waking hours. Read More

Recent Media Appearances Featuring EPPC Scholars
On the latest episode of EPPC’s podcast Searching for Medicine’s Soul (Listen on: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher), Dr. Lydia Dugdale joins EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Rothstein to discuss her book The Lost Art of Dying and the place of death and dying in our culture.
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