Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America
By James C. Capretta, Grace-Marie Turner, Thomas P. Miller, Robert E. Moffit
Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Co-authored by EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta, Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America is the first book to explore, in detail, how the new health care reform law will affect the nature, quality, and availability of health care in the United States.  [Read More]

Redeeming Economics
Rediscovering the Missing Element
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The most important element of economic theory has been ignored for more than two centuries, and its rediscovery has started a revolution the likes of which occurred just three times in eight centuries. In Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element, John D. Mueller shows how reapplying the economic thought of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas makes economics whole again.  [Read More]

The End and the Beginning
Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history."   [Read More]

Against the Grain
Christianity and Democracy, War and Peace
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Cutting against the grain of conventional wisdom, New York Times bestseller, George Weigel, offers a compelling look at the ways in which Catholic social teaching sheds light on the challenges of peace, the problem of pluralism, the quest for human rights, and the defense of liberty.  [Read More]

In the Shadow of Progress
Being Human in the Age of Technology
By Eric Cohen
Posted: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
We live in an age of unprecedented human mastery -- over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more comfortable than ever before. But our gratitude for the benefits of progress increasingly mixes with concern about the meaning and consequences of our newfound powers.  [Read More]

Media Madness
The Corruption of Our Political Culture
By James Bowman
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2008
Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the "mainstream media" is in crisis no one has explained the intellectual and moral causes of this crisis. James Bowman, media critic for The New Criterion, provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media's self-generated demise.  [Read More]

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
A Call to Action
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, November 9, 2007
More than half a decade after 9/11, safe passage through a moment of history fraught with both peril and possibility requires Americans across the political spectrum to see things as they are. In this incisive, engaging study of the present danger and what we must do to prevail against it, George Weigel, one of America's foremost public intellectuals, does precisely that: he sees, and describes, things as they are -- and as they might be.  [Read More]

Liberating the Limerick
By Ernest W. Lefever
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature."   [Read More]

Honor
A History
By James Bowman
Posted: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the 20th century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the history of honor was inseparable from the history of mankind. Today, 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. But in the West itself, honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century at least.  [Read More]

My Fundamentalist Education
A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood
By Christine Rosen
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2005
"I grew up in a fundamentalist house and school," writes EPPC Fellow Christine Rosen in her new book. "It wasn't perfect, but it was what I knew; and now, years later, happily married to a non-fundamentalist and professionally something of a rationalist, I look back on them with the fondness most people have for their first school teachers, the band director, principal, classmates and their parents -- Christian fundamentalists, all."  [Read More]