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August 16, 2022
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America's Political Story Lines Need a Reboot
The Wall Street Journal
Lance Morrow

In one version, Joe Biden’s banana-republic thugs invade the home of a blameless former president and ransack his wife’s dress closet. In an alternate version, representatives of Merrick Garland’s long-suffering Justice Department call at Mar-a-Lago to see if they might retrieve top-secret nuclear codes that Donald Trump pilfered from the White House, no doubt with intent to blackmail the world, like Dr. Evil.

We are used to the media’s "Rashomon Effect," named after Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film that offered alternate and mutually contradictory accounts of a samurai’s murder. So which witness is the audience supposed to believe this time? MSNBC? Fox News? Someone isn’t telling the truth.

Americans have long since grown, as it were, nostalgic for reality. They grope for the truth in a labyrinth of outlandish story lines. A master theme of the left (stated approximately): The Orange Man is the Red Queen of White Supremacy. A favorite on the right: In regions of the left’s many weirdnesses, men are women, and women men—whatever their hearts desire. Men have babies, and women probably don’t exist at all. The metaphysics of America’s political and cultural story lines have gone meta, which means that they have adapted new technologies (the trillion screens) to the oldest sleight-of-hand practiced by confidence men, totalitarians, intellectuals and the producers of cable television news.
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EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson Cited in Michigan State Supreme Court Opinions
EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson’s scholarship was cited by Michigan State Supreme Court Justice David F. Viviano and Justice Brian K. Zahra in their respective dissenting opinions issued in the case of Rouch World, LLC v Department of Civil Rights. The justices cited Anderson’s “Disagreement is Not Always Discrimination: On Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Analogy to Interracial Marriage,” published in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Anderson’s “On the Basis of Identity: Redefining Sex in Civil Rights Law and Faulty Accounts of Discrimination,” published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Read court opinions and a summary of Ryan's contribution below.
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Democrats are Focusing on the GOP in the Midterms. Republicans Should Welcome it ([link removed]) so long as they remember that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, writes Senior Fellow Henry Olsen in the Washington Post.
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Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz writing at National Review says that the attack on Salman Rushdie is a symbol of globalism's role in the Decline of Western Civilization ([link removed]) .
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Senior Fellow Henry Olsen argues in his Washington Post column that Biden's Failed Immigation Policy Should be a Scandal ([link removed]) because it flouts the rule of law, damages the economy, and is wildly unpopular with voters.
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