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A Triumph of Moral and Political Leadership
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Saturday, November 24, 2007
The president deserves enormous credit for standing firm on the ethical principle here, against massive political pressure. That was important and right in itself, and it also did help to nudge stem cell research in the right direction. But as a matter of moral and political leadership, the first part was much more important than the second, and was also what made the second possible. Science can be flexible, ethics must be firm, and the combination can help avert a collision.  [Read More]
A Stem Cell Win-Win
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The news embargo now seems to have been on what is likely to rank as the most important development in stem cell science since the first derivation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998. Two prominent scientific journals--Science and Cell--are each today publishing papers that demonstrate extraordinary success with a technique called "somatic cell reprogramming."  [Read More]
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New Books
The Latest Books from EPPC Scholars

Faith, Reason and the War Against JihadismEPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's new book is essential reading in a time of momentous political decisions. Drawing on a quarter century of experience at the intersection of moral argument and public policy, he describes rigorously and clearly the threat posed by global jihadism and points a new direction for both public policy and interreligious dialogue, one that meets the challenge of jihadism forthrightly while creating the conditions for a less threatening, more mutually enriching encounter between Islam and the West.
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EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman recounts the history of honor, noting that it is inseparable from the history of mankind. While honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century in the West, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States.
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EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen writes a warm and affectionate memoir of her days as a school girl in a fundamentalist Christian school in St. Petersburg, Florida where "the Bible was our textbook," God the guide, and after entering the school gates, nothing was ever quite the same again.
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May 2009
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.

 Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr  -- Wilfred McClay, a historian specializing in American intellectual history, offered an overview of Niebuhr's unique form of progressive Christianity and addressed ongoing debates about the influence of Niebuhr's work on 20th-century American politics and international affairs.

 Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony? -- Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, discussed why he believes religion and science are compatible and why the current conflict over evolution vs. faith, particularly in the evangelical community, is unnecessary.

 The Political Obligations of Catholics -- the Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver and author of Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (2008), argues that Catholics should take an active, vocal and morally consistent role in public debates, particularly on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and other matters they consider central to social justice.