What We Throw Away
Alexandra DeSanctis National Review
Progressives love to regulate the purchase, use, and disposal of everyday items. Several states have banned plastic bags entirely, while others require stores to impose a per-bag fee. Several hundred localities have enacted policies taxing or banning disposable bags in states that have declined to craft such regulations.
There are very few things that progressives are uninterested in regulating, taxing, or otherwise censuring. One major exception: the business of eliminating “unwanted” human beings prior to birth. In Vermont, home of the country’s most aggressive waste-disposal regime, a state where it is now illegal to place your food waste in the wastebin, there is no law requiring the respectful disposal of fetal remains after an abortion.
A good gardener knows when to prune and weed his holdings, but the Catholic Church appears overgrown at times. Fran X. Maier explores a comparison between horticulture and holiness in The Catholic Thing.
Lance Morrow takes his Wall Street Journal readers to the silver screen. As it turns out, Errol Flynn and Henry Fonda map well onto the contemporary squabble between the rival MAGA and Woke camps.
The case for biological males in women's sports is far from watertight. David Gortler explains how the expression of biological sex cannot be suppressed from the sonogram to the swimming pool in his latest for Newsweek.
Newly at the helm of the EDIFY Podcast, Mary H. FioRito hosts Kellie Fiedorek, a legal expert working to protect First Amendment freedoms, the sanctity of life, and the right to privacy. The two discuss the role of religious belief in the public square and the forces threatening its practice today.
To celebrate the launch of George Weigel's latest book To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, EPPC invites you to the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 12th. This event will feature George's thoughts on the contested meaning and great promise of the Council, a book signing, and a light reception.
See also: George joined John J. Miller of National Review's The Bookmonger podcast to discuss his latest work,To Sanctify the World, and give his account of the Council's motivations which surpass common misconceptions in both clarity and depth.
Accompanying Public Discourse's release of a new pro-life resource, Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis will join a Zoom panel discussion on the meaning of the Dobbs decision, what's next for the pro-life movement, and how the pro-life movement can best serve mothers and children.
