NEIL ARMSTRONG’S “SMALL STEP”
BROUGHT THE MOON DOWN TO EARTH
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
Apollo 11 was the apogee of an era of dreams and the start of an age of division and small-mindedness.
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IS PAID FAMILY LEAVE COMPATIBLE WITH CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES?
On Tuesday, EPPC convened a conversation among conservative advocates and opponents of federally financed paid family leave, along with policymakers working on the issue, about the idea’s philosophical and practical implications. The two panel discussions explored whether conservative principles could support such an idea and, if so, what alternatives might be pursued to create an effective program.
Click here for more details, a roundup of media coverage, and full videos and photos of the panel discussions, which were moderated by EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen.
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ON THE NEW “NATIONALISM”
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Thanks to President Trump’s “America First” rhetoric and the rise of populist-nationalist parties in Europe, there’s a lot of debate about “nationalism” these days. On that subject, as on so many others, it’s worth listening to Pope St. John Paul II. Read More
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IMMIGRATION AND THE DESIRE FOR ROOTEDNESS
By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Public Discourse
National conservatives need to help create an America that knows who she is, one that can give immigrants more than just a place to get a job—an America that can draw them in, giving them a sense of belonging. Read More
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CONSERVATIVES ARE STILL GRAPPLING WITH THE TRUMP ERA. AND MANY HAVEN’T YET LEARNED THEIR LESSON.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The old conservative movement clearly missed something crucial about the national mood to have failed so utterly to prevent President Trump’s nomination and election. Failure to come to grips with this and to be genuinely new in some way will produce the same political failure. Read More
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FALSE RACISM ACCUSATIONS DON’T EXCUSE THE REAL THING
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
With a few key strokes, President Trump transformed an embarrassing moment for Democrats into a disgraceful one for Republicans. Read More
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PRAY FOR POLAND
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
The drama of the past year in the Church in the United States can sometimes distract from the global dimensions of the crisis of clerical sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance. In Poland, the Church faces its own scandal of clerical sexual abuse. Read More
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THE QUIET HOURS OF LEONID BREZHNEV
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Recent research in Soviet intelligence files raises some interesting questions about the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. Read More
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REPUBLICANS ARE HOWLING ABOUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING YET AGAIN. HERE’S WHAT THEY
GET WRONG.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The Republican Party needs to show it understands what voters want by proposing a serious deficit-reduction package that includes tax increases on those who can afford it, in addition to a package of spending cuts. Ten years after Simpson-Bowles foundered, a new bipartisan compromise could achieve what a decade of futile gesturing has not: reduced deficits and moderate growth in government spending. Read More
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