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INAUGURAL REFLECTIONS ON
AMERICAN RENEWAL

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
First Things
In today’s unprecedented situation, what are the commitments to be re-affirmed by those promoting a religiously-informed public philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty?
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FREE THE MIND FROM BITTERNESS

By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
Americans have become dangerous to themselves. This must be transcended. Read More

AMERICANS WANT UNITY. HERE’S WHY THAT’S STILL SO DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE.

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
For years, activists on both the right and left have demonized each other as beyond the pale of reasonable discourse. Read More

OUR CATHOLIC PRESIDENT

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
For better or worse, Joe Biden’s words and actions as president will shape how the Catholic faith is perceived and understood. Read More

PRESIDENT BIDEN AND A CATHOLIC INFLECTION POINT

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Lay responsibility for Catholic witness in public life and episcopal responsibility for the Church’s eucharistic integrity bear heavily on each other. Read More

RYAN T. ANDERSON TO BECOME
NEXT EPPC PRESIDENT

 
EPPC’s Board of Directors announced last week that political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson will become its sixth president on February 1. Dr. Anderson will succeed Ed Whelan, who has served as EPPC president since 2004 and who will continue his scholarly work as EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow.

Dr. Anderson will join EPPC from the Heritage Foundation, where he is the William E. Simon senior research fellow. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey.

Click here to read the full announcement, which includes celebration of the news from Senator Marco Rubio, Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, and others.
 

ULTRA-WOKE ILLINOIS MANDATES ARE TOP THREAT TO U.S. EDUCATION

By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
Illinois is about to mandate that every one of its licensed teachers adopt progressive political orthodoxy and impart that ideology to students. Read More

BIDEN IS SET TO REINSTATE U.S. FUNDING FOR GLOBAL ABORTION

By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
President Joe Biden shortly will issue an executive order reversing the Mexico City policy, which currently prevents U.S. aid money from funding groups that perform or promote abortion around the globe. Read More
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A SCIENTIST’S MIND, A POET’S SOUL

By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
The New Atlantis
Except for Aristotle, no scientist before or since Alexander von Humboldt can boast an intellect as universal in reach as his and as influential for the salient work of his time. His neglect today is unfortunate but instructive. Read More

NEW DATA SHOWS BOTH A HOPEFUL AND WORRYING PORTRAIT OF RACE IN AMERICA

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Realizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream has been much more difficult than most Americans imagined. The realities of racial progress and discrimination co-exist today. Read More

CHRISTIANS AS A CULTURAL MINORITY (AGAIN)

By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Washington Institute
The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace. Read More

MORE INANE MYTHS ABOUT CHOSENNESS

By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Mosaic
A new book aims to dispel the idea of the divine chosenness of the Jews. In fact, it promotes a moralism as heavy-handed as that of the most simplistic preacher. Read More

ORDINARY TIME

By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
In the sacred space of our conscience and our personal choices, none of us is powerless, and no life, no matter how obscure or limited, is inconsequential. How we live our lives matters. Read More

INFAMY AND MYTHOLOGY

By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal

Leave it to Donald Trump’s brilliant subconscious instinct to top itself and, just at the end of his White House run, to stage a pageant that perfectly expressed his historic effrontery. Read More

TRUMP MIGHT FADE AWAY FASTER THAN PEOPLE THINK

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
After leaving office, Donald Trump will no longer be able to shape the news with his every breath, and that alone gives other Republicans space to enter the field. Read More

FR. MACIEJ ZIĘBA, O.P. (1954–2020) 

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
Maciej Zięba’s was a Catholic voice of singular insight, clarity, and good sense in an increasingly fragmented and polarized Polish society. Read More
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