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** GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, REST IN PEACE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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Gertrude Himmelfarb lived the virtues she taught, and she was a paragon of intellectual accomplishment, personal grace, and solid integrity.
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Do people of faith still have a place in the American university? Are Jewish and Christian ideas still welcomed in the marketplace of ideas? Are religious students respected? And should Jews and Christians focus greater energy on strengthening religious colleges? Join Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, one of America’s most prominent Jewish leaders, and Princeton University's Robert P. George, former chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, for a wide-ranging discussion about the religious formation of America’s rising generation at a special event at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sunday, January 12.
EPPC is pleased to co-sponsor this event with the Tikvah Fund and Baylor University in Washington's Robert P. George Initiative on Faith, Ethics and Public Policy. To register, or to view more information about this event, visit this page ([link removed]) at the Tikvah Fund’s website.
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** THE SOLEIMANI ASSASSINATION COULD HAVE DANGEROUS RIPPLES AROUND THE WORLD
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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The assassination of Iranian Quds Force mastermind Qasem Soleimani is justifiably leading to fears of war with Iran. The Trump administration should be wary: That prospect could tempt other global adversaries to test our resolve elsewhere while the administration’s attention is focused on the Middle East. Read More ([link removed])
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** NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCERNED CATHOLICS: A FEW SUGGESTIONS
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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May 2020 be a year full of grace for everyone. (We’ll all need it.) Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Weigel’s piece ([link removed]) arguing that, in recent years, “the local Churches that have tried hardest to play catch-up with ‘history’ and ‘the times’ are collapsing.”)
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** WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN THE NEW YEAR
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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The beginning of a new year is usually a time for hope, a chance to make a fresh start. Given all the Church has been through in the past year, the usual optimism that comes with a new year –and a new decade – seems a bit diminished. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. White’s piece ([link removed]) arguing that a Church in which “the lay vocation is lived fully and well...would be a real Church, strengthened and confirmed in her mission.”)
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** PERSECUTION, TRUE AND FALSE
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By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Law and Liberty
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The key for Christians—from the beginning—has always been how they respond to trials and tribulations, and the most genuinely Christian responses historically have not been via force or politics but rather acts of care and love of neighbor. Read More ([link removed])
** A DISPARATE MEDLEY OF
AMERICAN VOICES
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The impeachment proceeding should have been a grand and significant occasion, argues ([link removed]) EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow. But it felt like stagecraft—history as performance, as if to say that we live in a fatally politicized, post-historical world.
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** MCCONNELL’S SUPREME COURT TACTICS:
POLITICS 101
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By EPPC President Ed Whelan
National Review Online
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When the president and the Senate majority are from the same party, look for the swift confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. Read More ([link removed])
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** JUST “POLITICS”
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By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion
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With the departure of seriousness and responsibility from the political culture, what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences” took over, and the rancorousness and hatred which are now the salient features of our political life have been increasing ever since. Read More ([link removed])
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** TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING HAS ALREADY RECOVERED FROM ITS IMPEACHMENT SLUMP
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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President Trump’s job approval rating has regained all the ground lost after his telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to light and now stands close to a three-year high. This should worry Democrats. Read More ([link removed])
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** LOVABLE OL’ BERNIE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
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He has praised totalitarian regimes and thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist. What’s not to love? Read More ([link removed])
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** CHRISTMAS, FREEDOM, AND OBEDIENCE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
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The Christmas story is a lengthy meditation on a counterintuitive but essential truth: True freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes. Read More ([link removed])
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** CHRISTMAS TURNS THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
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What does it mean for God’s power to be “made perfect in weakness”? Read More ([link removed])
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