Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a former fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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There Is No Such Thing as ‘Health Care’

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

The term “health care” covers so many different realities that trying to embrace them all at once — whether through acts of Congress or just discussion — is doomed at the start.

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National Review Online / October 5, 2017

America’s Francification: La Fin

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

America would do well by building a stronger bipartisan commitment to family policy, and by cultivating a renewed appreciation for America’s founding ideals.

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National Review Online / September 27, 2017

Do Our Fights Over Pope Francis Have to be This Dumb?

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

In today’s intra-Catholic debates, the failure is not one of communication; it is one of charity.

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America Magazine / September 25, 2017

Washington Wealth and the American Desert? Not Yet, But It’s on the Horizon

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

The expansion of the central megalopolis and the relative desertification of the rest is a feature of Francification. A massive decentralization, not just of political power but of human capital, has long been an American distinctive.

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National Review Online / September 22, 2017

I am Catholic—and I Don’t Know What I’m Supposed to Believe About Immigration

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Catholics are split between two camps that seem intent on shouting at each other, and there are serious questions that men and women of profound faith and genuine intellect on both sides must consider.

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America Magazine / September 15, 2017

America’s New Normal Is France’s Old Normal

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

If Donald Trump’s victory showed something, it is that a general and widespread loss of confidence in America and its future has taken hold of voters.

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National Review Online / September 14, 2017

The Peculiar Conservatism of the Lonely American

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Conservatism offers up Burke’s little platoons as the engines of social progress, but in a society turned lonely, that offer becomes meaningless because it stops being relevant to people’s everyday experiences.

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National Review Online / August 30, 2017

America’s Francification, Part Trois: Secularism

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

America is not secularizing in the same way as France has, but its own path toward a watered-down religious middle, led by an aggressive and resourceful secular minority, may lead to the same outcome.

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National Review Online / August 24, 2017

America’s Francification, Part Deux

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Increasingly, it’s our elite, central institutions — Congress, the Ivy League — that grant status and dole out resources to the favored few.

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National Review Online / August 18, 2017

The Francification of America: The American Le Pen and the French-style Realignment

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

A Trumpified American politics would introduce something that has long existed in Europe but rarely in the United States: class-based parties.

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National Review Online / August 11, 2017

The Perils of Reflexively Politicizing Tragedy

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

As they do with every mass shooting, many liberals leapt at the opportunity to claim that the recent shooting at a congressional baseball practice “proves” the need for stricter gun control.

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The Week / June 16, 2017

Stop Freaking Out about the Paris Agreement

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Beyond allowing people an opportunity to do some serious virtue signaling, the Paris Agreement actually doesn’t do much of anything.

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The Week / June 1, 2017