“Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.”
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Erich J. Prince
Erich J. Prince is the editor of Merion West. Erich has contributed to a variety of publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Hartford Courant, The News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Hill. He studied political science at Yale, completing his thesis on polarization in the United States Congress.
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Elena Thérèse-Rose: Making Catholicism Shareable (Especially on the Web)
Nicholas Kristof Discusses “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope”
“One of the reasons our anti-poverty efforts in America don’t do better is we start too late. We need to help kids early on.”
Robert Orlando: Bending Genre in Filmmaking
“If you look through the films, it’s a propaganda machine, where identity politics is always featured. There’s no space there for just a common universal story, which is the appeal to human frailty or common ground.”
David French Talks “Divided We Fall”
“Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.'”
Wes Jackson: How to Respect One’s Tools
“I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.”
Jonathan Church: Getting to the Bottom of the Robin DiAngelo Craze
“I go through a whole analysis of that and why—statistically speaking—you’re basically making a very broad statement about white people in general based on one observation in one Jeopardy! episode.”
Ray Haynes: Why Republicans Should Support the Popular Vote
“In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.”
Kevin Williamson: How to Improve the Lot of Those Left Behind
“And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.”
Alfie Bown: Where Politics and Gaming Meet
“I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.”
Thomas Ricks: Politics, as Seen from Aristotle to Trump
“And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.”
H. R. McMaster: How He Sees China, and the World
“And so I think we have to resist the tendency to try to define a new administration’s foreign policy mainly as an opposition to the administration that came before it.”
David Gurfein: Advocating on Behalf of Accused American Service Members
“The UCMJ has some key aspects to it which do not afford military personnel the same degree of presumption of innocence that you’d see in a civilian court.”
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
“The way we farm and the way we think are connected—that’s our premise.”
Rep.-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux: Why She Ran, and Hope for the Future
“One of the big issues was health care reform; my own parents struggled with the cost of prescription medications, using up all of their discretionary income to pay for my father’s insulin and other medications.”
Mayor Justin Elicker: Lessons from New Haven, CT
“It’s clear that so many cities are going through a lot of the same challenges that New Haven is facing right now.”
