A Clash of Conscience
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012
With Obamacare, it was only a matter of time before the federal government tried to use its new powers to coerce Catholics into submitting to a secularist humanist worldview.  [Read More]

Child Sacrifice in 21st Century America
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, January 27, 2012
Thirty-nine years after Roe v. Wade created an unrestricted abortion license in the United States, and during the week when hundreds of thousands of Americans pray and march for life, all Americans ought to ponder the kind of country to which Roe v. Wade led.  [Read More]

A State of Denial
By Yuval Levin
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
President Obama's State of the Union address offered a vision of a hyperactive government with its hands in every corner of our economy while ignoring our mounting deficits and debt. It was a very bad sign about what the president would seek to do with a second term.  [Read More]

Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The president's State of the Union message boiled down to this: if only the Republicans were willing to tax the rich, all would be well. Unfortunately for the president, there's absolutely no evidence to support this claim.  [Read More]

Obama’s Fictional Narrative
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Barack Obama's State of the Union address was disconnected to the needs of the nation. He's attempting to distract the public from our main threat. It's the job of the loyal opposition and honest public intellectuals to call the president out.  [Read More]

Obama's Final SOTU?
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Governor Mitch Daniels' Republican rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address was a masterpiece: concise, direct, optimistic, and tough.  [Read More]

Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone
By James C. Capretta
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The White House says twenty-eight states are "on their way" to implementing Obamacare. But a fairer assessment is that fifteen states are "on their way" while the other thirty-five most definitely are not.  [Read More]

Václav Havel and Us
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012
After his death, Václav Havel's brilliant literary deconstruction of the moral tawdriness of late bureaucratic communism, the underground essay called "The Power of the Powerless," was widely and appropriately quoted. Another Havel essay from his days in opposition also bears re-reading: "The Anatomy of a Reticence," the Czech playwright's 1985 critique of the willful blindness of western peace activists about the nature of Soviet totalitarianism.  [Read More]

VIDEO: Six Decades as a Worldwide Religion Watcher: Observations and Lessons Learned
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Watch selections from Dr. Peter Berger's presentation at EPPC's most recent Faith Angle Forum on Religion, Politics, and Public Life.  [Read More]

The Role of Sympathy and Trust in American Politics
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Our presidents must be especially careful to employ rhetoric that doesn't cut too deeply or leave wounds that will be difficult to heal.  [Read More]