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Check out our document rebutting and responding to Michael Moore's movie. "War, Lies, and Videotape is our attempt to separate the fact from the fiction in Fahrenheit 9/11, and to provide context when Moore fails to do so," says EPPC President Ed Whelan. "Given the critical importance of the movie's focus -- the war on terrorism and America's efforts in Iraq -- viewers deserve a claim-by-claim guide to Moore's distortions."
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Peter Berger Boston University
"The Ethics and Public Policy Center has effectively shown how crucial moral reasoning is to the proper formulation of foreign and domestic policy."
Why are the wealthiest and most comfortable people in human history the least likely to want children? What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain? What kind of civilization will we become if we seek cures for the sick by destroying human embryos? In this evening event at EPPC, Eric Cohen discussed these questions and others from his new book, In the Shadow of Progress. He was joined by William Kristol of the Weekly Standard and William Saletan of Slate. Leon R. Kass moderated. Audio of the event is now available.
Follow the evolution of movie romance from Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in It Happened One Night to Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman, film and cultural critic of The American Spectator and author of Honor: A History and Media Madness, will host a summer movie series with commentary by Leon Kass (of the American Enterprise Institute and the University of Chicago) and Amy Kass (of the Hudson Institute and the University of Chicago).
In October 1998 Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). The IRFA mandated the promotion of religious liberty around the world as a central element of American foreign policy. In 2008 three symposia at Georgetown examine the origins (February 25), performance (April 21) and promise (October 10) of IRF policy. Experts from across the spectrum of American public life - scholars, policymakers, experts and journalists - as well as informed officials and observers from around the globe, will analyze policy. The April symposium, building on the first one, will take stock of the results of U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy thus far.
