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Quiet Desperation: How to Heal Modern Medicine

Aaron Kheriaty

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts,” George Eliot wrote in Middlemarch. Eliot could have…

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The Hippocratic Review / September 18, 2026

EPPC Supreme Court Brief Explains Parents Are Injured When Government Treats Them as Presumptively Unfit

Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson, Rachel N. Morrison

On September 15, 2026, EPPC filed an amicus brief in International Partners for Ethical Care v. Ferguson, urging the Supreme Court…

Amicus Brief

PDF / September 17, 2026

Theology of the Body in the Age of AI

Stephen P. White

Everyone who knows anything about Pope John Paul II’s “theology of the body” “knows” that it is about sex. Anyone…

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The Catholic Thing / September 17, 2026

Murky Senate polls reveal the trouble Republicans are in

Henry Olsen

Recent Senate polls must have Democrats feeling giddy. Democrats are now leading in the RealClearPolitics polling average in every battleground…

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The Washington Post / September 16, 2026

The Vatican and Russia

George Weigel

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s “foreign minister” (Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, to use the official…

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First Things / September 16, 2026

Virginia’s Amendment 1 Is Extreme and Deceptive

Edward Whelan

The voter referendum would allow abortion up to birth, abolish parental consent, and more. Beginning next week and running through…

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National Review / September 16, 2026

Sweden’s Right loses the count but wins the trend

Henry Olsen

The Swedish election remains too close to call, although it appears likely that Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson’s unwieldy four-party red-green…

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Brussels Signal / September 15, 2026