Ethics and Public Policy Center

The official book cover of No Contact from @noellem has now been released! More than 68 million Americans are now estranged from family. What is driving this movement?

To make America healthy again, we need policymakers to respond to what is happening to young people behind screens. It’s a grim picture. dailysignal.com/2026/05/12/fer…

A Conversation with Stanley Kurtz: Why Students Must Read Whole Books substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@PTBwrites of @EPPCdc joins The Right Way Forward debate: "A Burkean, incremental approach that seeks to recognize the burdens young families face can provide a solid footing." washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/45674…

Big Food and Big Tech - more connected than you think?

The GOP’s gerrymandering fire wall might be enough to let the party keep the House. It cannot, however, hold back public opinion forever. @henryolsenEPPC washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

My latest @PostOpinions newsletter, Margin of Victory, explains how the GOP's redistricting push likely means the Democrats could win the House vote by up to 4% and STILL LOSE the majority. Read it and sign up for your own weekly copy below! s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?track…

In Rejecting God, Leftism Renders Us Less Human thefederalist.com/2026/05/12/in-…

To make America healthy again, we need policymakers to respond to what is happening to young people behind screens. It’s a grim picture. dailysignal.com/2026/05/12/fer…

The cost of having children is worth the presence of children. Full stop. I am dumbstruck at how our society thinks of children as a costly, time-consuming drag. What an impoverished way to think. No vacation will hold your hand in the hospital. No amount of mimosas at brunch can walk with you through grief. Double incomes cannot replace empty seats around the dinner table.

What does justice look like for the human embryo?

@factcheckdotorg This piece shares false information about our study, the largest of its kind, which found that the serious adverse event rate of the abortion pill is 22 times higher than previously shared with the public. Read the facts here: eppc.org/publication/in…

"For all its cultural power, secular liberalism has fallen into an internal crisis, shadowed by pessimism and despair." - @DouthatNYT youtube.com/watch?v=r_tv2m…

"Yet for all of the gains of the last few years, I am not ready for a victory lap. First, transgenderism is supported by organizations that are both wealthy and shrewd..." - Carl Trueman @EPPCdc firstthings.com/the-trans-war-…

Excellent data and policy recommendations from @ClareMorellEPPC @EPPCdc on digital tech and relationships...eppc.org/publication/te…

Pleased to have an essay in this issue! Gift link below:

"Like our Founding Fathers, we know that the success of the American experiment depends upon the moral and religious character of the people." - @RyanTAnd youtu.be/LqVqSy4zN4w?si…

The Biden Administration removed the in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion pill. Then the serious adverse event rate got 13% worse than it already was. eppc.org/publication/fa…

Very weird that cover page states "On Emergency Application to the Supreme Court of Virginia." That's the styling for a petition for a writ of certiorari, but it makes no sense to say that the emergency application is "to" the Supreme Court of Virginia.

As expected, this is a crazy filing. Virginia makes two arguments in support of its request for an emergency stay. 1. It contends that the state supreme court's interpretation of the Virginia constitution is "predicated ... on a grave misreading of federal law." But the court merely cited a Supreme Court case as informative on, and supportive of, the general meaning of "election." This comes nowhere close to meeting the high bar of showing that the court ruled on a federal question. 2. Invoking the narrow exception left open in Moore v. Harper (2023), it contends that the court's ruling so “transgressed the ordinary bounds of judicial review such that it arrogated to itself the power vested in the state legislature to regulate federal elections.” But no justice is going to find the court's ruling manifestly bonkers. Look for this stay application to be denied without any dissent.

The Trump administration celebrated Mother's Day with a "yuge" set of regulatory memos/guidance around child care that seem to all share a couple of common themes: - Parental choice - Streamlining regulations - State flexibility