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Mary Rice Hasson Joins EPPC as Fellow in Catholic Studies Posted: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 The Ethics and Public Policy Center is pleased to report that Mary Rice Hasson has joined EPPC as a Fellow in our Catholic Studies program. [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: The Divide Between Rich and Poor Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2012 In the Weekly Standard, EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin reviews Charles Murray’s “profound and important book”—Coming Apart—which “systematically demonstrates” that commitment to “crucial American virtues” has faded in different ways among upper and lower classes. A renewed commitment to the American ethic, Mr. Levin writes, “must direct itself especially to addressing the collapse of the institutions of family, society, work, and culture among the poor.” [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: The Global War Against Baby Girls Posted: Thursday, March 8, 2012 In many countries, the ratio of newborn boys to girls has skewed dramatically. In EPPC’s journal The New Atlantis, demographer Nicholas Eberstadt explains that the widespread availability of abortion and ultrasound, combined with cultural factors, has led to the extermination of tens of millions of girls in the womb. [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012 Are mutations random and meaningless? In the “survival of the fittest,” what counts as “fitness”? In EPPC’s journal The New Atlantis, Stephen L. Talbott explains that the scientific literature shows scant evidence for the randomness of mutations, and argues that the notion of “fitness” raises more questions than it answers. [Read More]

EPPC Briefly: The HHS Contraception Mandate versus Religious Freedom Posted: Thursday, February 9, 2012 In "Religious Liberty and Civil Society," EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin warns that "what is at issue in the controversy over the administration's rule [on the HHS contraception mandate] is not just the question of religious liberty but the question of non-governmental institutions in a free society." [Read More]


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The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society

The new issue of EPPC’s journal The New Atlantis is dedicated entirely to publishing the first report of the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science, an important new body whose members hail from such fields as biology, medicine, law, political science, and theology. In its inaugural report, the Council examines the last decade’s contentious debates over stem cell research—exposing the major lies and distortions, clarifying the scientific promise and ethical stakes of the research, and drawing lessons about how we ought to govern science. Visit TheNewAtlantis.com today!

Radical-in-Chief

Read EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz's remarkable new political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. The New York Times bestseller, which draws on never-before-seen evidence to reveal the carefully hidden tale of Barack Obama's political past, has already earned praise as "the most important political book of the year" and as "a meticulous work of political archeology, an excavation of Obama's radical roots and socialist affiliations."