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Dissolution of Bioethics Council is a Loss for America
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
Last month, President Barack Obama quietly disbanded the President's Council on Bioethics, a deliberative body whose changing cast of erudite and ideologically diverse members had spent the past eight years thinking through today's toughest moral questions.  [Read More]
Our Sophist-in-Chief
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
Obama is, he would have us believe, uniquely able to transcend old, tired, and rutted debates, to think anew, and to bring a fresh, creative approach to the problems of our time. He alone inhabits the upper world.  [Read More]
When the Government Runs Health Insurance
By James C. Capretta, Roy Ramthun
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
Obama administration officials have been promising to “bend the cost-curve” with reforms in Medicare that reward quality and pay for value, but what they have actually proposed are indiscriminate fee cuts to meet spending targets  [Read More]
President Reagan and Pope John Paul II
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
They were two of the giant figures of the last half of the twentieth century -- Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II -- and they had many things in common. Both were trained actors whose craft had taught them the power of words to change minds and hearts. Both came to eminence through unconventional routes, and against the grain of a lot of the common wisdom.  [Read More]
Lessons From St. Augustine
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, July 3, 2009
Cringe-inducing public confessions like those Governor Sanford has been delivering in recent days are a sadly familiar feature of American political life today. A cynical public has grown accustomed to hearing politicians from President Bill Clinton to Senators John Edwards and David Vitter employ religious language about sin and redemption when admitting to adulterous affairs.  [Read More]
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Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

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Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- December 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in December 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.

 Religion and Race: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective -- Eddie S.Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, discussed religion and race in America.

 A Post-Election Look at Religious Voters in the 2008 Election -- John Green, a senior fellow in religion and American politics at the Pew Forum, discussed how a small change overall in voting behavior among religious groups had a big impact at the ballot box.

 America and Islam After Bush  -- Vali Nasr, author of the 2006 book, The Shia Revival, surveyed the geo-political landscape of today's Middle East.