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Faith Angle Conference on Religion, Politics & Public Life
Sunday, March 7 - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Faith Angle Program will hold its Conference on Religion, Politics & Public Life March 7-9 in South Beach, Florida. The series brings together a select group of nationally respected journalists and distinguished scholars for in-depth discussions of cutting-edge issues at the intersection of religion and public life.
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Truths Still Held? John Courtney Murray's “American Proposition,” Fifty Years Later
The Ninth Annual William E. Simon Lecture
Thursday, January 28, 2010
A half century after the publication of We Hold These Truths, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel will look closely at the legacy of John Courtney Murray's thought and its supreme relevance to the current crises in our public life in his 2010 Simon Lecture: Truths Still Held? John Courtney Murray's "American Proposition," Fifty Years Later.
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Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits
Thursday, January 21, 2010
On January 21, 2010 EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta testified at a hearing held by the House Budget Committee. The subject was "Perspectives on Long-Term Deficits," and Mr. Capretta focused his remarks on the implications of the health-care bills under consideration in Congress for the long-term budget outlook.
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Are the Current Health Reform Bills Fair?
Friday, December 4, 2009
On December 4, 2009, EPPC Fellow James C. Capretta participated in a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute entitled, "Are the Current Health Reform Bills Fair?" Mr. Capretta focused his remarks on the large differences in governmental subsidies that would be provided to people inside and outside of the so-called "exchanges." Low and moderate wage families who have no choice but to sign up with job-based coverage would get much less assistance -- in some cases $7,000 less -- than families with identical incomes but with access to the additional subsidization offered for insurance in the exchanges.
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Give the Gift of Ideas
Gift subscriptions to EPPC's journal 'The New Atlantis' now available
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The Age of Neuroelectronics
For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics.
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Blogging on the Courts
EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.
Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:
 From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."
From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog: "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours."
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