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EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II will be published by Doubleday on September 14, 2010. More than ten years in the making, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy chronicles John Paul's decades-long struggle with communism and recounts the tumultuous last years of John Paul's life as he dealt with a crippling illness, "new world disorder," and corruption within the Church. 

EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz is pleased to announce the impending publication of his remarkable new political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. To be published on October 19 by the Threshold imprint of Simon & Schuster, Mr. Kurtz's Radical-in-Chief draws on never-before-seen evidence to reveal the carefully hidden tale of Barack Obama's political past. 

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, EPPC President Ed Whelan critiqued Senate Democrats' flimsy attacks on the Roberts Court and explained that "any sober assessment of the current reality and future risk of judicial activism provides further compelling reason to vote against the Kagan nomination." Read his complete testimony here, and watch his oral testimony here (initial presentation beginning at 01:56:06, and answers to questions at 02:18:13, 02:23:23, and 02:26:31). 

July 30, 2010: EPPC Fellow John Mueller presented a lecture on his forthcoming book, Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element in Wilmington, Delaware. The lecture, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, was given in honor of Milton Friedman's birthday. For more information, please see here. 

The next two elections provide a historic opportunity to repeal the massive folly of ObamaCare and to adopt sensible market-based health-care reforms that reward efficiency and innovation. To pave the way for repeal, EPPC health-care expert Jim Capretta is directing a new website, ObamaCareWatch.org, that is tracking news about Obamacare's implementation from around the country and that will be a repository of essential facts, statistics, and analysis. Read Jim's introductory essay. 

In the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes recounts the history of EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie's Faith Angle Conferences for journalists and celebrates them as "a rare recent example of the quality of journalism being improved."

You can read the transcripts from the most recent of these conference here, here, and here. 

The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society will take place this summer from June 28 to July 15 in Kraków, Poland. To learn more, visit the seminar's homepage: www.eppc.org/tms. 

EPPC fellows have real-time impact by writing for influential blogs, including:

• Peter Wehner writes frequently on politics and policy for Commentary magazine's blog Contentions and for National Review Online's The Corner.
  
• Ed Whelan is a leading contributor to NRO's Bench Memos blog on constitutional law and judicial issues.
  
• James C. Capretta's important analyses of health-care reform legislation are carried both by The New Atlantis's own Diagnosis blog and by NRO's Critical Condition.
  
• NRO's The Corner also features Yuval Levin's insights on matters of public policy and political philosophy.

 

EPPC Scholar James Bowman was recently featured on BBC Radio Radio 4's program Thinking Allowed and discussed "Honor and Respect."

Click here to listen to an audio recording of the interview.