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** THE MORAL UNIVERSE OF TIMOTHY KELLER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
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In a conversation with EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner, Dr. Tim Keller discusses his own journey to faith, the theology of suffering, the role of faith in politics, and more.
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** SIR ROGER SCRUTON LAUDED FOR
SERVICE TO EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS
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EPPC Senior Fellow Sir Roger Scruton has earned recognition ([link removed]) from the governments of Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic for his courageous anti-communist efforts and his legacy of moral and intellectual leadership.
Sir Roger was honored ([link removed]) on December 3 in London with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, and last month, in Prague, he received ([link removed]) the Medal of the Czech Senate for his work alongside Czech dissenters behind the Iron Curtain. (He also received the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit from President Václav Havel in 1998.)
Earlier this year, Sir Roger was also presented ([link removed]) the Order of Merit from the Republic of Poland by President Andrzej Duda.
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** AN AUTOCRACY OF FEELINGS OVERWHELMS AMERICA
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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A democracy needs as much thought as it can get. Ours isn’t getting much. Read More ([link removed])
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** REVOLUTIONISM REDUX, PART II
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By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion
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A New York Times town hall meeting reveals that paper’s newsroom as the epicenter of the revolutionary dynamic now manifesting itself among American progressives. Read More ([link removed])
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** NATIONAL INTEREST, NATIONAL PURPOSE: REIMAGINING MORALITY AND FOREIGN POLICY
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Providence Magazine
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The United States was the first modern polity to claim political legitimacy on the basis of its recognition of certain truths, hard-wired into the human condition, about the human person and freedom. It would be unworthy of us not to take that history seriously as we think about our responsibilities in the world in the twenty-first century. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Weigel’s piece ([link removed]) arguing for the “centrality of religious freedom to free and virtuous 21st-century societies and to 21st-century democracy.”)
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** THE CROSS OVER THE MANGER
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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Advent is a season of hope because we believe that the One who makes things whole is on His way. Read More ([link removed])
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** IS CAITLIN FLANAGAN RIGHT ABOUT THE ABORTION DEBATE?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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Caitlin Flanagan is an affecting writer, but the argument she makes about abortion — movingly told as it is — is not quite convincing. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Ms. Charen’s column ([link removed]) decrying New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s use of “deaths of despair” as a “partisan bludgeon.”)
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** CONSERVATIVES’ DEBATE OVER THEIR FUTURE IS GOING TO BE BITTER AND FIERCE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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The blowback over Sen. Marco Rubio’s recent speech at Catholic University shows that debate over conservatism’s future is going to be bitter and fierce. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Olsen’s piece ([link removed]) arguing that a “future Republican majority coalition...has to include suburban moderates, blue-collar populists and solid party loyalists of all stripes.”)
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** ARE TRUMP’S CRITICS DEMONICALLY POSSESSED?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
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Two of the president’s prominent evangelical supporters are literally demonizing his opponents. Read More ([link removed])
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** HONG KONG VOTERS HAVE TAKEN A RISK. TRUMP SHOULD, TOO.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Sometimes a country such as the U.S. needs to take a stand to protect its highest ideals regardless of consequences. Now is such a time. Read More ([link removed])
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** TRUMP’S WAR-CRIMES PARDONS WEAKEN OUR MILITARY’S MORAL FIBER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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An ethically upright military takes decades or even centuries to build. It can be undone much more quickly. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE BISHOPS STAND – IN THEIR OWN WAY – WITH PETER
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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Collegiality and synodality cannot be of service to the Church if they are simply window dressing for the ecclesial groupthink which too often insists: “Do what we mean, not what we say.” Read More ([link removed])
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** A LAST CHANCE FOR AUSTRALIAN JUSTICE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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The highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Cardinal George Pell case in 2020. Read More ([link removed])
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** NETANYAHU SHOWS US WHY INDICTING A LEADER IS BAD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Any serious charge of criminal behavior by a political leader creates severe political problems for a country, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment shows. But what is problematic for Israel could pose an existential threat to our Constitution. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHAT IS THE AMERICAN IDEA?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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Richard Brookhiser’s Give Me Liberty is a defense of what he calls “America’s Exceptional Idea,” an elegant and lyrical case for the ideal that has shaped America. Read More ([link removed])
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** REMEMBERING ROB ODLE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
National Review Online
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Rob Odle was a sterling exception to that world of legal gamesmanship, and it was, and is, attorneys like him who make Washington work, when it does. Read More ([link removed])
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