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Sen. Marco Rubio published a piece in the Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, observing,

The murder of Mr. Floyd at the hands of law enforcement officers was an outrageous crime that has shocked this nation. But it would be a mistake to conclude that the unrest of the last two weeks is only about his death or relations with the police.

At its core, this unrest is about the question of what kind of society we are, and what kind of society we want to be.

Read the whole article here.

Andrew T. Walker, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Executive Director and Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement, has joined The Witherspoon Institute’s online journal, Public Discourse, as its new contributing editor.

Dr. Walker researches, writes, and speaks about the intersection of Christian ethics and public theology with particular focus in the areas of anthropology, natural law, and church-state studies.

The editor-in-chief of Public Discourse, Ryan T. Anderson, recently interviewed Dr. Walker on how the publication has formed him over the years and his hopes for the future. Read their discussion here!

Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University and senior fellow of The Witherspoon Institute, Dr. Jacqueline Rivers, sociologist at Harvard University, Dr. Charles Camosy, bioethicist at Fordham University, attorneys representing the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund and the Thomas More Society have published a memorandum “detailing the tenets of federal law and explaining that federal civil rights statutes prohibit discrimination – including discriminatory policies established by state health officials – based on age or disability.”

“Thomas More Society Vice President and Senior Counsel Peter Breen explained, ‘We’re reading the unthinkable – the Seattle Times reported that Washington state and hospital officials have been meeting to consider how to decide who lives and dies. In our nation’s capital, the Washington Post is running editorials about the ‘nightmare’ of rationing health care, as is the National Review in the hard-hit state of New York. The horrific idea of withholding care from someone because they are elderly or disabled, is untenable and represents a giant step in the devaluation of each and every human life in America.'”

See the full Press Release here.

Read the Full Memorandum here.

Dr. R. J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute, spoke on February 15, 2020 at the Friendship, Love and Happiness Conference sponsored by the Scala Foundation and the Thomistic Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary. He gave a talk entitled “Demons at the Feast of Love: Concupiscence, Benevolence and Transcendence” which you can view here:

Chen Guancheng, distinguished senior fellow in human rights at the Witherspoon Institute and faculty member of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, wrote an article for the Washington Post about the role the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarianism has played in the coronavirus outbreak. Read it here. 

I have long said the Chinese Communist Party is a threat to humanity. Now, with the outbreak spreading from Wuhan to the far reaches of the globe, the regime has again proved itself a danger to civilization. It has succeeded in turning a public health crisis into a human rights catastrophe. The first victims are always the Chinese people themselves, but the rest of the world will pay a price for the CCP’s habits as well.