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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | John Mccormack |Mary Hallan FioRito |Erika Bachiochi |Patrick Brown
February 28, 2025 (Washington, DC): The Ethics and Public Policy Center is proud to announce that John McCormack will be appointed as a Visiting Fellow in the Life and Family Initiative beginning on March 1st. His work will focus on long-form essays on right-to-life issues and the future of the pro-life movement. McCormack will also continue in his current role as a senior editor at The Dispatch. “We are incredibly excited to welcome John to the team.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Patrick Brown |Eric Kniffin |Mary Hallan FioRito
Published October 2, 2024American CompassThe poor, we are told, will always be with us. But those “living in poverty” constitute a large and diverse group of individuals—people struggling with disability or mental illness, people in economic distress due to a recession or other economic shocks, and people not currently able to provide for themselves, but who might be able to if given the right carrots or sticks.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Eric Kniffin |Mary Hallan FioRito |Patrick Brown
October 18, 2024 On October 15, 2024, EPPC Scholar Jamie Bryan Hall submitted a public comment in response to an RFI from the House Ways and Means Committee. The comment argues that in next year’s tax reform debate, Congress should seize the opportunity to eliminate the greatest injustice in the federal income tax code: marriage penalties. The tax reform that would most benefit working families is not simply the tax reform that appears to benefit the most working families.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
catholicnewsagency.com | Tyler Arnold |Mary Hallan FioRito
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2024 / 06:00 am While serving as a United States senator from California, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly scrutinized judicial nominees for being members of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization. Harris, who is competing with former president Donald Trump to succeed President Joe Biden, directly referenced the Knights of Columbus membership of at least three judicial nominees during the Senate confirmation process in 2018.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Stanley Kurtz |Mary Hallan FioRito |Patrick Brown
October 16, 2024(Washington) — A new policy memo from scholars at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Niskanen Center calls on Congress to deliver much-needed tax relief to American parents. The memo details a child tax credit proposal for Congress to consider in upcoming tax debates. The document was signed by a range of high-profile conservatives and think tank leaders. “If Congress doesn’t act in 2025, parents will get hit with a huge tax hike,” said Patrick T.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Stanley Kurtz |Mary Hallan FioRito |Rachel Morrison |George Weigel
Published September 25, 2024National Review OnlineBrian Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., was appointed by Governor Tim Walz’s state education department to help write the statewide “implementation framework” (similar to a curriculum) for Minnesota’s new “ethnic studies” standards. It now emerges that Lozenski has called for the “overthrow” of the United States. Lozenski is no outlier.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Clare Morell |Adam Candeub |Mary Hallan FioRito |Rachel Morrison
Published September 24, 2024National Review OnlineEarlier this month, Judge Robert Shelby of the U.S. District Court of Utah declared unconstitutional the Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act, which the state legislature passed this spring. We believe this is an act of judicial activism that is based on flawed reasoning, legally and practically. You don’t need social scientists to tell you something is wrong.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Rachel Morrison |Mary Hallan FioRito |George Weigel |Mary Hasson
October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 (Washington) — Destructive gender ideology has taken hold in modern society. How can pastors and pastoral ministers help families respond as this ideology rears its head at home and in school? EPPC’s Person and Identity Project provides a comprehensive response to that question with the release of the book, Gender Ideology and Pastoral Practice: A Handbook for Catholic Clergy, Counselors, and Ministerial Leaders.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Jennifer S. Bryson |Rachel Morrison |Mary Hallan FioRito
Published September 30, 2024Newman ReviewIn Munich in the 1990s, a previously unknown manuscript of an unpublished book about John Henry Newman written fifty years earlier surfaced. It was subsequently published in German (Der Geopferte, 2004) and has now been translated into English as John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed(Ignatius Press, 2024). The author was Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971), a once-famous Catholic author known especially for her hagiography.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Clare Morell |Michael Toscano |Rachel Morrison |Mary Hallan FioRito
Published September 29, 2024The HillHistory’s first “digital natives,” members of Gen Z, are experiencing such acute levels of emotional strain and depression that Jonathan Haidt has described them as “the anxious generation.” The omnipresence of social media is a primary driver of this crisis. In response, some states have passed laws requiring platforms to age verify their users and obtain parental consent for kids to gain access.
