NEW PUBLICATIONS

Understanding American Evangelicals
The latest Center Conversation features a survey of the history and beliefs of American evangelicals, from noted historian Mark Noll of Wheaton College. Taking part in the ensuing discussion are journalists David Brooks, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Barone, Elisabeth Bumiller, Jay Tolson, and others.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2115/pub_detail.asp

 

Stem Cells and the Senate
Dozens of U.S. Senators have signed a letter to President Bush, demanding that he change the policy in place since 2001 regulating the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. EPPC scholar and New Atlantis editor Eric Cohen explains how the advocates of such research have been distorting the facts, and why the key questions are fundamentally ethical.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2106/pub_detail.asp

 

Dealing with the DaVinci Code
With more than seven million copies sold, The DaVinci Code has become a publishing phenomenon. EPPC senior fellow George Weigel looks at the book's preposterous premise and flat-footed mistakes.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2109/pub_detail.asp

 

The Scientist and the Poet
Science and poetry have often been rival ways of making sense of the world -- speaking different languages, seeking different truths. But the story is in fact much more complex. In this article from EPPC's journal The New Atlantis, Paul A. Cantor explores what poetry can teach us about modern science -- by guiding and illuminating our mastery of nature.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/4/cantor.htm

 

Obligations to "Spin"
Richard Clarke, Howell Raines, Jayson Blair -- all are the heroes of their own self-manufactured dramas to which they imagine we all ought to pay attention. In this essay from The New Criterion, EPPC resident scholar James Bowman looks at truth and spin in the modern media landscape.
http://www.jamesbowman.net/articleDetail.asp?pubID=1524

Understanding the Indian Elections
On May 11, 2004, political theorist and commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta addressed an audience at EPPC on the recent -- and dramatic -- Indian elections. Speaking just prior to the announcement of the official results, he offered a wide-ranging and compelling account of Indian party politics, and discussed the extent to which Hindu-nationalist positions might be adopted by other political parties. Click here for a transcript:
http://www.eppc.org/conferences/pubID.2103,eventID.81/transcript.asp

 

The Free and Virtuous Society
On May 19, EPPC senior fellow George Weigel delivered the fourth annual Tyburn Lecture at Tyburn Convent, London. Weigel's comments, on the subject of Catholic social doctrine in the twenty-first century, can be found here:
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.2107/pub_detail.asp

 

America's Moral Challenge
"It is in the issues of bioethics -- embryo research, human cloning, drugs like Ritalin and Prozac -- that modern society will be forced to confront its soul," according to EPPC scholar Eric Cohen. Click here to read more from this interview on our cultural and ethical divides:
http://www.eppc.org/news/newsID.2105/news_detail.asp

God on the Stump
As the campaign season heats up, some public attention has been given to the faith of the two presidential candidates. From the middle of the 2000 presidential campaign, here's a Center Conversation about American religion and public life, featuring Charles Krauthammer, Stephen Carter, and Leo Ribuffo.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubid.1543/pub_detail.asp

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