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Jan 22, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Carl R. Trueman |Rachel Morrison |Henry Olsen |Patrick Brown
Published January 22, 2025 WORLD Opinions The New York Times recently reported on an event where religious leaders—two liberal Protestant ministers (a Baptist and a Presbyterian) and a Jewish cantor came together to bless a Maryland abortion business in an effort “to show that religion could be a source of support for abortion rights.” As usual, the wickedness being perpetrated is couched in the language of piety. The article quotes Katey Zeh, the Baptist minister, as telling the staff, “You...
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Patrick Brown |Clare Morell |Rachel Morrison |Andrew Walker
Published January 17, 2025 Commonplace Every stage of pregnancy, from conception to morning sickness to well checks, becomes easier when you and your spouse aren’t both at your respective offices full-time. So, statistically, my workplace wasn’t the only one with some late-notice pregnancy announcements toward the end of 2020.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Henry Olsen |Clare Morell |Rachel Morrison |Andrew Walker
Published January 15, 2025 Commonplace he Trump-Vance administration takes office next week with an ambitious agenda and united Republican control of Congress. It is also the political leader of a new Republican Party, one that is rightly labeled as multi-racial and working-class. That labeling, though, is only partially correct.
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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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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.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Carl R. Trueman |Mary Hallan FioRito |Rachel Morrison |George Weigel
Published September 25, 2024WORLD OpinionsThe recent death of a young girl in Japan has brought attention to the fact that suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers in that country. Japan is not the United States, of course, and no doubt there are unique cultural expectations and dynamics that its teenagers have to navigate. But the West is not immune to the kind of despair that leads to such tragic consequences.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
eppc.org | George Weigel |Mary Hallan FioRito |Rachel Morrison |Francis X. Maier
Published September 25, 2024Syndicated ColumnAccording to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio, there are north of five thousand Catholic bishops in the world today. They share certain characteristics and attributes.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
eppc.org | George Weigel |Rachel Morrison |Mary Hallan FioRito |Francis X. Maier
Published September 18, 2024 Syndicated Column In her prescient book Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School warned her fellow Americans in 1993 that our public life was being degraded by the promiscuous use of the language of “rights” as a rhetorical intensifier in campaigns to promote this, that, or the other thing: things that the founders and framers would never have imagined to be “rights.” “Rights talk,” Professor Glendon...
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
eppc.org | Clare Morell |Rachel Morrison |Mary Hallan FioRito
Published September 17, 2024NewsweekThere has been a lot of recent attention on attempts to get phones out of schools. The data make clear that phones inhibit students’ learning, cause and exacerbate discipline issues, and harm students’ mental health. Evidence is also clear that phone bans work. Bans improve academic outcomes, especially for the lowest-performing students, and improve the social environment for students.
