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'Hardball' Host May Not be Specter's Chief Worry
By Rick Santorum
Monday, January 5, 2009
Will MSNBC's Chris Matthews return to his boyhood home of Montgomery County to play real hardball against five-term Sen. Arlen Specter? That question is all the buzz in Pennsylvania political circles - once again.

Supreme Success
Thanks to Bush, we have a chance for a Roberts Court.
By M. Edward Whelan III
Monday, December 29, 2008
While President Bush earns the highest marks for Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, his project of restoring the Supreme Court to its proper role in a constitutional republic remains incomplete. If and when a future president is ready to help build a real Roberts Court, that president will have plenty of strong Bush appointees to the lower courts to choose from.

Christmas Story Says Bodies Matter
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Monday, December 29, 2008
Although reasoned arguments are sufficient to defend these nascent human lives, the Christian faith professed by more than three-quarters of Americans offers additional grounds to do so. That faith says that God became incarnate in a human body and passed through every stage of human development to redeem human beings, body and soul.

In Defense of Rick Warren
By Peter Wehner
Monday, December 29, 2008
President-elect Obama deserves credit for asking Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. The outrage directed at Warren is an effort to intimidate those who oppose same-sex marriage into silence and de-legitimize their arguments rather than answer them.

Born in the Midst of Daily Life
By George Weigel
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Roman basilica of Sts. Cosmas and Damian tends to elude the casual tourist and the hurried pilgrim, although it's right off the Via dei Fori Imperiali between Trajan's column and the Colosseum. A visit at any time is worthwhile, as the apse mosaics are among the most spectacular in Rome but Sts. Cosmas and Damian is particularly striking during Advent and Christmastide because it's also home to one of the world's most colossal creches.

The Bare Necessities
Marketing Luxury Goods in a Bad Economy
By Christine Rosen
Monday, December 22, 2008
Perhaps we should follow the advice of high-end companies like DeBeers and "reassess what really matters." If we do, we might discover that this current recession is a good opportunity to break our luxury fever.

When Books Were Great
Furrowing the American middlebrow.
By Christine Rosen
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The death of reading has been much in the news lately, and so Alex Beam's new book, a rollicking tour of the Great Books movement that flourished in the United States in the 1940s and '50s, is timely indeed. With fluid prose and a sense of humor about the terrifying earnestness that often permeated the Great Books enterprise, Beam gives the movement the respect it deserves but does not avoid pointing out its excesses and missteps.

Republicans Need a New Leader
By Rick Santorum
Thursday, December 18, 2008
An unpopular war, ethical scandals, and a stunning budget deficit have led the American electorate to rebuke the Republican Party over the past two election cycles, leaving us bereft of a national leader and a message to communicate. As Republicans find themselves against a new Great Communicator, it is time to fill the leadership void and articulate clearly what we stand for.

Defending Human Dignity
By George Weigel
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Dignitas Personae is a courageous effort to alert us to the present danger, to remind us of the dignity that is inherent in every human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death, and to suggest how that dignity is threatened by the false use of our new genetic knowledge, even in good causes.

EVENT: "In The Red Chair" Documentary Premiere
Featuring Tawfik Hamid
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Please join EPPC Senior Fellow Rick Santorum and the Program to Protect America's Freedom at the premiere of In the Red Chair: Tawfik Hamid, a powerful short documentary featuring a former jihadist from Egypt. Dr. Hamid, who will be present for a public discussion after the screening, now works to articulate a peaceful interpretation of the Islamic tradition, consistently challenging his fellow Muslims to define the boundaries of moderate Islam in the 21st century.

The Very Model Of Lucidity
An appreciation of Avery Cardinal Dulles, 1918-2008.
By George Weigel
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Avery Cardinal Dulles knew in Whom he believed. That made him the man he was, and the theologian he was. That made all the difference in an original American life that spanned more than a third of American history.

The long-term consequences of the hook-up culture
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Friday, December 12, 2008
Once confined to dorm-room gossip sessions, salacious details about the hook-up culture on today's college campuses have become fodder for serious sociological analysis. No fewer than four books on the topic have been published this year alone and the proliferation of studies suggests an emerging consensus among experts that today's anything-goes campus sexual mores carry lasting consequences we only have begun to understand.

Diagnosis - A Health Care blog by James C. Capretta

On his New Atlantis blog "Diagnosis," EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta has been keeping a close eye on the incoming administration's plans to remake American health care. His latest blog posts:

Who Is Taking the Long View'
Mike Leavitt�s Warning
Health Care Entitlements: Piling On

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EPPC Fellows Blog

Several EPPC Fellows are regular contributors to some of the most popular blogs:

Stanley Kurtz, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin each contribute to National Review Online's popular The Corner blog.

Ed Whelan is a leading contributor to NRO's Bench Memos blog on constitutional law and judicial nominations.

George Weigel contributes to On Faith, a blog on religion and faith from the Washington Post and Newsweek.

Mr. Wehner and Mr. Levin also contribute to Commentary magazine's blog Contentions.

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In the Shadow of Progress

According to the Weekly Standard, the new book by EPPC adjunct fellow Eric Cohen "arrives like a spring breeze, fresh and calm and cleansing, something to be welcomed by anyone who follows bioethics and its controversies."

Robert P. George calls In the Shadow of Progress "a book rich in moral insight and even prophetic wisdom." First Things magazine calls Eric Cohen an "important new voice" in bioethics.

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Faith & Culture

The Challenge of Chastity

EPPC Fellow Colleen Carroll Campbell interviews interviews Dawn Eden, author of The Thrill of the Chaste, about the challenge of living chastity in a hook-up culture. The show airs on EWTN television Sunday, December 14 at 10:30am and Wednesday, December 17 at 11:00pm. It airs on EWTN radio and Sirius Satellite Radio Saturdays at 6pm E.T., Sundays at 7am E.T., and Tuesdays at 1am E.T.