EPPC Briefly: Mormonism and Politics
Posted: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Will Mitt Romney be the Mormon JFK? How do voters react to Romney's religious affiliation, and what information alters their reaction? These are among the questions about Mormons and American politics that University of Notre Dame political scientist David Campbell explored with leading journalists at the most recent session of EPPC's semi-annual Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life.  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: A Choice of Two Temperaments
Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2011
The “executive” versus the “revolutionary”? According to EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin, Republican front runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have “remarkably similar policy and political profiles but remarkably different temperaments and dispositions.”  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: Catholics and Freedom
Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel applauds the work of American Catholic bishops—led by Archbishop Timothy Dolan—against the “multiple (and multiplying) threats to religious freedom today” that are coming from “those who attempt to impose relativism as the official national creed, and who are trying to do so through coercive state power.”  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: Liberals Playing to Type
Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2011
In the Weekly Standard, EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin explains that the "old stereotypes" about liberals-big taxers and spenders, economic bunglers, technocratic micromanagers, class warriors, and cultural elitists-"have made a comeback, because the old excesses have too."  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: George Washington on Religious Freedom
Posted: Thursday, November 3, 2011
On Wednesday, November 16, EPPC will inaugurate its new American Religious Freedom program with a lunchtime event that will highlight and explore George Washington's statements and actions as president on church-state relations and on religious liberty. The event will feature constitutional scholars Michael W. McConnell and Vincent Phillip Muñoz.  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: Speaking Truth to Power, or Not
Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011
In his recent address to the Bundestag, writes EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel, Pope Benedict XVI "spoke some home truths to his countrymen who, like many of their European Union compatriots, have forgotten a great deal about the cultural foundation of the West-foundations that are essential in supporting the political edifice of human rights and the rule of law." (See also Mr. Weigel's reflection on the fifth anniversary of Pope Benedict's Regensburg lecture on Islam and religious freedom.)  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly 9-22-11: Transforming Medicare
Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2011
"The need for Medicare reform has never been more urgent, or more clear. We simply cannot avert a debt crisis without it," writes EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin in the cover essay in the Weekly Standard. Mr. Levin outlines how to transform Medicare into a "truly market-based guaranteed insurance benefit" that spares the elderly from the risk of greater out-of-pocket costs.  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly 9-8-11: Thinking about the 2012 Elections
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2011
In the Wall Street Journal, EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin and EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner challenge the tea party movement to "channel its energy into entitlement reform—and specifically the reform of Medicare." Otherwise, "its members cannot really be considered champions of limited government or defenders of America's future prosperity."  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly 8-18-11: Place and Placelessness in America
Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2011
In its current issue, EPPC's journal The New Atlantis considers place and placelessness in modern American life. New Atlantis senior editor Ari N. Schulman explains how GPS and location-awareness technologies are transforming travel and the way we experience the world. And a symposium of essays examines the meaning and importance of place from a variety of angles.  [Read More]

EPPC Briefly 7-28-11: George Weigel on Benedict XVI and Evangelical Catholicism
Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
"Blessed John Paul II and Benedict XVI represent the full flowering of a renaissance in Catholic thought that began with Pope Leo XIII," explains EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel in a major essay in the British journal Standpoint. This "Evangelical Catholicism" is "both culture-forming and counter-cultural," and it challenges the West to reject the dictatorship of relativism and to "recover the full richness of its cultural patrimony."  [Read More]