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THE MORAL UNIVERSE OF TIMOTHY KELLER

By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
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

 
EPPC Senior Fellow Sir Roger Scruton has earned recognition 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 on December 3 in London with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, and last month, in Prague, he received 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 the Order of Merit from the Republic of Poland by President Andrzej Duda.

AN AUTOCRACY OF FEELINGS OVERWHELMS AMERICA

By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
A democracy needs as much thought as it can get. Ours isn’t getting much. Read More

REVOLUTIONISM REDUX, PART II

By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion
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
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NATIONAL INTEREST, NATIONAL PURPOSE: REIMAGINING MORALITY AND FOREIGN POLICY

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Providence Magazine
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

(See also Mr. Weigel’s piece arguing for the “centrality of religious freedom to free and virtuous 21st-century societies and to 21st-century democracy.”) 

THE CROSS OVER THE MANGER

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
Advent is a season of hope because we believe that the One who makes things whole is on His way. Read More

IS CAITLIN FLANAGAN RIGHT ABOUT THE ABORTION DEBATE?

By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
Caitlin Flanagan is an affecting writer, but the argument she makes about abortion — movingly told as it is — is not quite convincing. Read More

(See also Ms. Charen’s column decrying New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s use of “deaths of despair” as a “partisan bludgeon.”) 

CONSERVATIVES’ DEBATE OVER THEIR FUTURE IS GOING TO BE BITTER AND FIERCE

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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

(See also Mr. Olsen’s piece arguing that a “future Republican majority coalition...has to include suburban moderates, blue-collar populists and solid party loyalists of all stripes.”) 

ARE TRUMP’S CRITICS DEMONICALLY POSSESSED?

By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
Two of the president’s prominent evangelical supporters are literally demonizing his opponents. Read More

HONG KONG VOTERS HAVE TAKEN A RISK. TRUMP SHOULD, TOO.

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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

TRUMP’S WAR-CRIMES PARDONS WEAKEN OUR MILITARY’S MORAL FIBER

By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
An ethically upright military takes decades or even centuries to build. It can be undone much more quickly. Read More

THE BISHOPS STAND – IN THEIR OWN WAY – WITH PETER

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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

A LAST CHANCE FOR AUSTRALIAN JUSTICE

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
The highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Cardinal George Pell case in 2020. Read More

NETANYAHU SHOWS US WHY INDICTING A LEADER IS BAD FOR OUR DEMOCRACY

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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

WHAT IS THE AMERICAN IDEA?

By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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

REMEMBERING ROB ODLE

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
National Review Online
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
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