TRANSCRIPT: The Biology Wars
The Religion, Science and Education Controversy
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In December 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Edward J. Larson, a professor of Law and American History at the University of Georgia, viewed the controversy over teaching evolution in American public schools from an historical perspective -- from the Scopes trial of the 1920s to the intelligent design legal battles of today.  [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: The Islamic Paradox
Religion and Democracy in the Middle East
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In May 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist for the CIA, argued that Shiite clerics and Sunni fundamentalists may hold the keys to spreading democracy in the Middle East.   [Read More]

TRANSCRIPT: Myths of the Modern Mega-Church
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Sunday, February 12, 2006
In May 2005, EPPC Vice-President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions at the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics and public life. In this particular discussion led by Mr. Cromartie, conference speaker Rick Warren, pastor of the largest church in America and author of The Purpose Driven Life, addressed misconceptions many Americans have about mega-churches. He also discussed current trends in the evangelical movement, and some of his views on hot-button political and cultural issues.   [Read More]

The Evangelical Conservatism of George W. Bush
Or, How the Republicans Became Red
By Wilfred M. McClay
Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"What I want to look at is, specifically, how the administration of George W. Bush seems to have marked a sea change in the evolution of Republican politics, in conservatism, in the present and future alignment of our political parties and ideologies, and the role of religion in our public discourse and public action. In addition, however, I want to talk about the ways that, taking a longer-range historical view, what looks like a sea change may in fact merely be the process of this administration and the political party it leads rejoining itself, consciously or not, to certain longer traditions of American political and social reform. And I will also want to ask, in the end, whether these changes or reorientations are entirely a good thing, or whether there are aspects of them that should give pause to Americans in general, and to conservative Americans and evangelical Americans in particular."  [Read More]

The Indian Elections
Counting the Votes and Assessing the Stakes
By Timothy Samuel Shah
Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004
On May 11, 2004, political theorist and commentator Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta addressed an audience at EPPC on the recent – and dramatic – Indian elections. Click here for a transcript of his presentation and the discussion that followed.  [Read More]

Kerry, Bush, and the Faith Factor
Panel Discussion, May 3, 2004
By Michael Cromartie
Posted: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Transcript of panel discussion "Kerry - Bush & The Faith Factor," May 3, 2004.  [Read More]

Fighting Proliferation, 2004
WMDs, Terrorism, and the New Security Environment
Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2004
Transcript of the "Fighting Proliferation, 2004" panel discussion.  [Read More]

The Return of Anti-Semitism
Posted: Monday, March 15, 2004
Transcript of our conversation with Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of The Return of Anti-Semitism.  [Read More]

The Struggle for Iraqi Civil Society
Transcript of Lecture by Zainab Al-Suwaij
Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
"It was really different to be back again... trying to help this society and this country emerge from what they’ve been through in the past 35 years to a new Iraq and their lives. You see now people are talking freely, acting freely, traveling freely, debating, experimenting, and practicing, you know, their life just as normal people... At night when they go to sleep, they feel that since the previous regime no longer exists and Saddam is no longer there, at least they feel safe inside."  [Read More]

"Worlds Beyond Our Own"
Read the transcript of the Zubrin-Park debate!
Posted: Saturday, February 7, 2004
The transcript of the EPPC debate between two distinguished space commentators -- Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society, and Robert Park of the American Physical Society -- is now available online.  [Read More]