Ethics and Public Policy Center
{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}
{{Self-published|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox organization
|name = Ethics and Public Policy Center
|image = Ethics and Public Policy Center Logo.jpg
|headquarters = 1730 M Street, N.W., Suite 910, Washington, D.C.
|formation = {{start date and age|1976}}
|founder = Ernest W. Lefever
|leader_title=President
|leader_name=Ryan T. Anderson
|leader_title2=Vice President
|leader_name2=Edward Whelan
|revenue_year = 2017
|expenses_year = 2017
|website = {{url|eppc.org}}
}}
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is a conservative{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-scalia-set-his-dissents-to-music-1417559938|title=How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scalia? Set His Dissents to Music|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 2, 2014|first=Jess|last=Bravin}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-nuclear-option-and-its-fallout/2014/12/17/abea2be6-8631-11e4-a702-fa31ff4ae98e_story.html|title=The nuclear option and its fallout|newspaper=The Washington Post|first1=Al|last1=Kamen|first2=Colby|last2=Itkowitz|date=December 17, 2014}} Washington, D.C.–based think tank and advocacy group. Founded in 1976, the group describes itself as "working to apply the riches of the Jewish and Christian traditions to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics, in pursuit of America’s continued civic and cultural renewal."{{cite web|url=http://www.eppc.org/about/|title=About|work=Ethics & Public Policy Center}}
Since February 2021, EPPC's president has been Ryan T. Anderson, who previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, succeeding Edward Whelan,{{cite web|url=https://eppc.org/news/ryan-t-anderson-to-become-next-eppc-president/|title=Ryan T. Anderson to Become Next EPPC President|work=Ethics & Public Policy Center}} who serves as EPPC's vice president.{{cite web|url=https://eppc.org/about/staff/|title=Staff|work=Ethics & Public Policy Center}} Former president of EPPC from 1989 through June 1996, George Weigel, Catholic theologian and papal biographer, is also a distinguished senior fellow.{{cite web|url=https://eppc.org/authors-scholars/|title=Fellows and Scholars|work=Ethics & Public Policy Center}} EPPC is a 501(c)(3) organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.eppc.org/support/|title=Support EPPC|work=Ethics & Public Policy Center}}Hoover’s Online. Ethics and Public Policy Center. Retrieved April 17, 2012 from Hoover's Online
History
EPPC was founded in 1976 by Ernest W. Lefever, an American political theorist. He was nominated in 1981 for a United States Department of State position by U.S. President Ronald Reagan before ultimately being rejected for the opportunity for his controversial background.{{cite web | url=http://www.bradleyfdn.org/On-Lion-Letter/ID/2197/Ethics-and-Public-Policy-Center-celebrates-40-years-of-championing-the-Judeo-Christian-moral-tradition | title=Ethics and Public Policy Center celebrates 40 years of championing the Judeo-Christian moral tradition | website=The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation | access-date=12 November 2018 }} He served as president of EPPC until 1989 and continued to write scholarly articles for EPPC until his death in 2009.{{cite web | url=https://eppc.org/publications/in-memory-of-ernest-w-lefever/ | title=In Memory of Ernest W. Lefever | last=Weigel | first=George | website=Ethics and Public Policy Center | access-date=12 November 2018 }} Lefever said upon founding the institute that "a small ethically oriented center" should "respond directly to ideological critics who insist the corporation is fundamentally unjust."{{cite web|url=http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Ethics_and_Public_Policy_Center|title=Ethics and Public Policy Center|date=20 January 2012|work=Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies}}
From 2003 to 2018, EPPC published The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society.{{cite web | url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/about/ | title=About The New Atlantis | website=The New Atlantis | access-date=12 November 2018 }} In January 2018, The New Atlantis became independent of EPPC and is now published by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society.{{cite web | url=https://eppc.org/news/the-new-atlantis-becomes-independent/ | title=The New Atlantis Becomes Independent | date=22 January 2018 | website=Ethics and Public Policy Center | access-date=12 November 2018 }}
EPPC is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025,{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board |url=https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119034220/https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/ |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |publisher=The Heritage Foundation}} a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.{{Cite news |last=Mascaro |first=Lisa |date=August 29, 2023 |title=Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision |url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922112031/https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981 |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |work=Associated Press News}}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.eppc.org/}}
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Category:Organizations established in 1976
Category:Charities based in Washington, D.C.