Patrick Brown

Columbia

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Fellow @EPPCDC, writes weekly "Family Matters" Substack, also seen @PublicDiscourse, @Deseret, @ chasing kids around. I had a marvelous time ruining everything.

Articles

Red States Show the Way for Pro-Family Populism

1 week ago | compactmag.com | Patrick Brown

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Adam and Eve After the Vibe Shift

3 weeks ago | fairerdisputations.org | Patrick Brown

In February 2022, Allison P. Davis, a features writer for The Cut, earned her Nostradamus bona fides: “A Vibe Shift is Coming,” her piece was titled. The subhead: “Will any of us survive it?”Davis’ piece popularized that now-omnipresent phrase, coined by consultant Sean Monahan, though few could have predicted in which direction the amorphous vibes would shift. Since then, the push to advance progressive gender ideology has stalled out, and even reversed.
To Help Parents, Let's Cut Red Tape and Build More Homes

1 month ago | ifstudies.org | Patrick Brown

The Trump-Vance administration has largely delivered on its campaign promises, some for better, some for worse. And where the next three years and 10 months will go is anyone’s guess. But some of its opening moves show the potential and tensions in operationalizing a pro-family approach to politics.
Trump’s IVF Order Betrays MAHA

1 month ago | eppc.org | Patrick Brown |Nathanael Blake |Carter Snead

Published March 4, 2025 Commonplace There is something laudable, if not especially new, in some of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda.
EPPC Welcomes John McCormack as New Fellow

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.
The Cass Report remains undefeated

1 month ago | eppc.org | Nathanael Blake |Carter Snead |Patrick Brown

Published February 28, 2025 WORLD Opinions There is still no good evidence for medically transitioning children. This has been proven yet again by the latest critiques directed at the Cass Report, the United Kingdom’s thorough review of the subject.
Putting Americans in Iron Lungs Again?

1 month ago | eppc.org | George Weigel |Carter Snead |Patrick Brown |Stanley Kurtz

Published February 26, 2025 Syndicated Column The nomination of Robert F.
How Trans Ideology Took America by Storm

1 month ago | eppc.org | Ryan Anderson |Carter Snead |Carrie Gress |Patrick Brown

Published February 24, 2025 Thomas D.
EPPC Files Amicus Brief Defending Religious Employer’s Right to Faith-Based Hiring - Ethics & Public Policy Center

1 month ago | eppc.org | Eric Kniffin |Carter Snead |Carrie Gress |Patrick Brown

Published February 3, 2025 PDF On February 3, 2025, EPPC fellow Eric Kniffin filed a Ninth Circuit amicus brief in Union Gospel Mission v. Ferguson to argue for a religious employer’s right to use faith-based criteria in its hiring decisions.
Human Battery Hens

2 months ago | eppc.org | Carl R. Trueman |Carter Snead |Carrie Gress |Patrick Brown

Published February 20, 2025 First Things Britain’s Daily Mail recently reported how around one hundred young Thai women were kept against their will, pumped full of hormones, and subjected to having their eggs forcibly harvested every month, to be sold on the black market by Chinese criminals.