Alexandra DeSanctis

Virginia

Staff Writer at National Review

@EPPCdc//@NRO. writing can be found in my diary and elsewhere.

Articles

In the Kingdom of Noise

4 weeks ago | eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 26, 2025 The Catholic Thing Here’s a fun fact: In December 1990, the planet had exactly one website, created by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. A year later, total global websites numbered 50.
Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap

4 weeks ago | eppc.org | Nathanael Blake |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 26, 2025 WORLD Opinions Dirty deeds really are done dirt cheap. The refrain from AC/DC’s song about an affordable hitman applies to other sordid endeavors, such as online sex work. Recent reports reveal that OnlyFans—largely driven by pornography—is booming, but that most of its “content creators” are not sharing in the bounty.
Utah Adopts Legislation Inspired by the General Education Act

1 month ago | eppc.org | Natalie Dodson |George Weigel |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

March 25, 2025 (Washington, DC): Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law state Senate Bill 334, “Center for Civic Excellence at Utah State University.” The bill, sponsored by Utah Senator John Johnson, was inspired by the General Education Act, model legislation from the Ethics & Public Policy Center, the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, and the National Association of Scholars.
Democrats Have A Manhood Problem, In More Ways Than One

1 month ago | eppc.org | Nathanael Blake |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 24, 2025 The Federalist Democrats have a penis problem. Specifically, their problem is that they think a woman can have one.
Praying the Psalms through Lent

1 month ago | eppc.org | Stephen White |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 22, 2025 The Catholic Thing During this season of Lent, we make it a point of discipline and charity to pray, fast, and give alms. It has long been my practice to make a special effort during this season to pray, with more consistency than I manage during the rest of the year, the Liturgy of the Hours.
Meditating on the Passion

1 month ago | eppc.org | Aaron Kheriaty |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 21, 2025 Catholic Exchange In the first part of this series I introduced the brief prayer, doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering—a simple aspiration we can say many times a day.
EPPC Scholar Submits Public Comment Testimony Urging Washington State Not to Erase Clergy-Penitent Privilege, Pressure Priests to Violate Seal of the Confessional - Ethics & Public Policy Center

1 month ago | eppc.org | Eric Kniffin |Natalie Dodson |George Weigel |Alexandra DeSanctis

Published March 18, 2025 PDF On Tuesday, March 18, EPPC scholar Eric Kniffin submitted public comment on Senate Bill 5375, pending before the Washington State Legislature, which would prioritize clergy members’ legal duty to report suspected child abuse over their religious duty to keep penitential communications absolutely private.
The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, Please

1 month ago | eppc.org | George Weigel |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz

Published March 19, 2025 Syndicated Column DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good sense to send to the U.S. House of Representatives a man the late Cokie Roberts, no liberal, once described as “the smartest person in Congress”: Henry J.
Where I’ve Been

1 month ago | alexandradesanctis.substack.com | Alexandra DeSanctis

Perhaps some of my loyal readers failed to notice my absence over the past couple of months and to those of you I say: How dare you? But to all my readers, those who missed me and those who didn’t, I report back with some news: In late November, my husband and I welcomed our first baby, and I’ve been away from work adjusting to parenthood.
In defense of pro-life incrementalism

1 month ago | eppc.org | Alexandra DeSanctis

Published March 13, 2025 Washington Examiner Progressive outlet Mother Jones examined the supposed “splintering” of the pro-life movement in a recent article, prompted in part by an online spat between pro-life leader Kristan Hawkins and some abortion opponents who call themselves “abolitionists.” The article paints a misleading picture, insinuating that views decidedly outside the mainstream hold significant sway in the pro-life movement. There is no dispute among pro-lifers, for instance,...