Peter Wehner
Peter Wehner is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Peter Wehner is a former senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It
Peter Wehner
A movement characterized by anxiety and anger, by harsh language and hard edges, by defensiveness and undue pessimism isn’t going to win many converts. Why would it?
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The New York Times / December 6, 2019
The Moral Universe of Timothy Keller
Peter Wehner
In a conversation with EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner, Dr. Tim Keller discusses his own journey to faith, the theology of suffering, the role of faith in politics today, and more.
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The Atlantic / December 5, 2019
Are Trump’s Critics Demonically Possessed?
Peter Wehner
Two of the president’s prominent evangelical supporters are literally demonizing his opponents.
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The Atlantic / November 25, 2019
The Exposure of the Republican Party
Peter Wehner
What is on display on Capitol Hill is not simply an impeachment inquiry into an unscrupulous president; it is the ongoing, deepening complicity and corruption of the party he leads.
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The Atlantic / November 13, 2019
The Presidency Deserves Respect—Even When the President Does Not
Peter Wehner
Civic grace means that each of us should look for places to act in our daily lives with a touch more class, a bit less venom, and a little more understanding toward those who see the world differently than we do.
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The Atlantic / October 29, 2019
Trump Betrayed the Kurds. He Couldn’t Help Himself.
Peter Wehner
Betrayal is hardly new to President Trump, who routinely abandons people who trust in him or the nation he leads. By now, this behavior should come as a surprise to exactly no one.
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The Atlantic / October 15, 2019
What’s the Matter With Republicans?
Peter Wehner
One might hope that some of the GOP’s elected officials would forcefully condemn the president on the grounds that there is now demonstrable evidence that he had crossed an ethical line and abused his power in ways even beyond what he had done previously, which was problematic enough. But things are very different today than they were in the summer of 1974.
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The New York Times / September 30, 2019
Trump Is Not Well
Peter Wehner
Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.
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The Atlantic / September 9, 2019
The Joe Walsh Challenge
Peter Wehner
Former Congressman and radio provocateur Joe Walsh embodies much that has gone wrong in American politics, just like the man he is challenging.
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The New York Times / August 28, 2019
Trump’s Words Are Poison
Peter Wehner
The president has done more than any politician in living memory to fan the flames of ethnic and racial antipathy and nurture a culture of bigotry.
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The Atlantic / August 6, 2019
For Conservatives Critical of Trump: Talking to Peter Wehner
Peter Wehner
In a conversation with Andy Fitch for the Los Angeles Review of Books, EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner discusses his new book The Death of Politics and the state of conservatism today.
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Los Angeles Review of Books / August 2, 2019