EPPC Briefly: Immigration ‘Reform’ and Obama’s Will to Power

Vatican II and the Berlin Wall

EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel recounts how the Second Vatican Council contributed to the fall of communism in Europe, a story that “illustrates the way in which salvation history, working inside what the world sees as ‘history,’ can bend history in a more humane direction.”

Lessons from the 1995 Strategy

EPPC Senior Fellow James C. Capretta and co-author Lanhee J. Chen explain that, in the new Congress, Republicans “must chart a sensible course for the next two years—one that demonstrates they can be trusted as America’s governing party and sets the table for 2016.”

Best Shot for GOP in 2016? Look to the Governors

In a New York Post op-ed, EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen touts the model employed by winning Republican incumbent governors in swing states: “positive governance, [with] generally but not dogmatically free-market fiscal policies, … seems to meet the public mood more than the liberal or conservative models Washington has on tap.”

Modernizing the CBO

The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation “often act as major bottlenecks in the process of policy development,” laments EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin, and “it is well past time for a more dramatic change in the way Congress’s scorekeepers do business.”

What Will the GOP’s Senate Takeover Mean for Judicial Nominations?

In the National Law Journal, EPPC President Ed Whelan draws lessons from how Senate Democrats exerted influence over President George W. Bush’s judicial nominations when they controlled the Senate during Bush’s last two years.

A Feeling For Pain

Modern medicine has mastered the elimination of pain to an impressive degree. But, as practicing anesthesiologist Ronald W. Dworkin writes in EPPC’s journal The New Atlantis, when science tries to explain pain, it often muddles what we know from experience.

Just Don’t Call It Islamic

President Obama’s response to yet another ISIS atrocity “reflects his continuing belief that by denying Islamic extremism, he can promote peace,” warns EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen.

How the ‘Reserve’ Dollar Harms America

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, EPPC Lehrman Institute Fellow in Economics John Mueller and co-author Lewis E. Lehrman argue that ending the dollar’s official role as the world’s reserve currency would “limit deficit financing, increase net national savings and release resources to U.S. companies and their employees in order to remain competitive with the rest of the world.”

Ukrainian Lessons for the West

In the Maidan “revolution of dignity” in Ukraine, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel discerns “five lessons the West badly needs to relearn about its own civic and political project, and the relationship of religious conviction and moral truth to that project.”