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** A SCIENCE-BASED CASE FOR ENDING THE PORN EPIDEMIC
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By EPPC Fellow Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
American Greatness
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The evidence is in: porn is as addictive as smoking, or more, except that what smoking does to your lungs, porn does to your brain. And compelling evidence suggests that it is also having a far-reaching impact on our social fabric as a whole.
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** A YEAR IN WHICH MUCH WAS LOST – BUT MORE GAINED
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Sir Roger Scruton
The Spectator (UK)
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During this year, much was taken from Sir Roger Scruton. But much more was given back. Read More ([link removed])
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** WITCH HUNTS, THEN AND NOW
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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Sin unredeemed by grace or merit resonates with the left’s ideology of a debunked America. It was that ideology that brought on the Trumpian uprising of 2016 and, three years down the road, has set the stage for the impeachment. Read More ([link removed])
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** PARTISAN IMPEACHMENT WILL ONLY ADD FIRE TO OUR IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Most Democratic voters don’t believe that President Trump should have been elected in 2016, and they view impeachment and removal as the proper remedy to undo that election. That view is ultimately fatal to democracy, which requires the losers to submit voluntarily to an election’s outcome. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHAT A SENATE ACQUITTAL IN AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WILL MEAN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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If, as seems all but certain, President Trump is not removed by the Senate, the standard about what is impeachable conduct will have been ratcheted higher. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE WELL-FOUGHT FIGHT
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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Protestations from the ideologically myopic notwithstanding, it’s pluperfectly obvious to any parent or grandparent trying to transmit the gospel view of the human person to a beloved child or grandchild that the West is in the midst of an often-vicious culture war. Read More ([link removed])
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** A CHANGING CHURCH
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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If the lay vocation is lived fully and well – with all the lay faithful taking seriously the gift and responsibility of their Baptism – what then might the Church look like? Read More ([link removed])
** BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS
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Resist the twitterization of thought—give books for Christmas! EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel offers his year-end recommendations ([link removed]) of titles that will delight, instruct, edify (or all of the above).
Books by EPPC’s scholars make great gifts, too, including three that were published this year: The Irony of Modern Catholic History ([link removed]) , by George Weigel; On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer ([link removed]) , a volume of reflections by the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, co-edited by EPPC President Ed Whelan; and EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner’s The Death of Politics ([link removed]) .
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** CHRISTIAN DOOMSAYERS HAVE LOST IT
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
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A movement characterized by anxiety and anger, by harsh language and hard edges, by defensiveness and undue pessimism isn’t going to win many converts. Why would it? Read More ([link removed])
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** AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE’S DREAM, SEEN WALKING IN LONDON
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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Britain is not a nation conceived in liberty, but it is in the course of dedicating itself to the proposition that all men are created equal. That is the promise of the platform Boris Johnson’s Tories ran on. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHITE HOUSE ORAL HISTORY: PETER WEHNER
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The Miller Center
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In an interview conducted in 2015 by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, and just published, EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner reflects on his early political and religious life, his observations regarding political conservatism, and his years of service in the George W. Bush White House. Read More ([link removed])
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** U.S. BLOCKS EXAMINATION OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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Despite President Trump’s tactics, North Korea continues to test missiles, manufacture nuclear fuel, threaten its neighbors, and abuse its suffering population. Read More ([link removed])
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** REMEMBERING FATHER LEONARD KLEIN (1945-2019)
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
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Father Leonard Klein’s distinctive life-experience is not easily replicable. But his example, as a Christian and a minister of the Gospel, could well be emulated by many. Read More ([link removed])
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