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Friday, June 25, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:18):
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President Biden’s Sudden Silence on the Death Penalty: Why Has the President Gone Silent on His Campaign Promise to Abolish the Federal Death Penalty?

ASSOCIATED PRESS (MICHAEL TARM)
Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

PART 2 (9:19 - 15:22):
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Why Do Atheists Oppose the Death Penalty More Than Religious Persons? There’s A Lot of Theology Here and It’s Openly Acknowledged

PEW RESEARCH CENTER (STEPHANIE KRAMER)
Unlike other U.S. religious groups, most atheists and agnostics oppose the death penalty

PART 3 (15:23 - 22:17):
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Have You Noticed How the Conversation on Crime and Policing Has Changed? Why Order and Trust Is Required for a Society to Thrive

NEW YORK TIMES (THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN)
Want to Get Trump Re-elected? Dismantle the Police.

PART 4 (22:18 - 26:23):
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We Never Quite Know What’s Lurking in the Depths, Do We? Diver in Cape Cod Scooped Up by a Whale. Sound Familiar?

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (RACHEL TREISMAN)
A Lobster Diver In Cape Cod Says A Humpback Whale Scooped Him Up And Spat Him Out

Thursday, June 24, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 6:7):
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Is “Coming Out” Soon a Thing of the Past? Not Yet, But The Sexual Revolutionaries Want to Take Down the “Heteronormative Patriarchy” So That Everyone On Earth is “Out"

USA TODAY (SCOTT GLEESON)
'The NFL needed this': How Carl Nassib's coming out as gay can change football and society

PART 2 (6:8 - 18:27):
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What Does the Utopian Culture of the Sexual Revolution Look Like? Well, USA Today Gives Us a Glimpse, Writing About a Day When Heterosexuality Is No Longer the Norm

USA TODAY (DAVID OLIVER)
Carl Nassib just came out as gay. But could coming out as LGBTQ be over someday?

PART 3 (18:28 - 25:36):
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Are We Witnessing the End of Gendered Clothing? Despite the Push from the Fashion Elites, It’s Hard to Imagine a World of Men in Their Summer Dresses

NEW YORK TIMES (GUY TREBAY)
The Boys in Their Summer Dresses

American Catholic, American Culture: A Conversation About Religion and American Public Life with Historian D. G. Hart

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 13:18):
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Do Human Beings Have An Unlimited Right of Autonomy? Millions of Americans Seem to Think So and the Consequences of This Claim Are Deadly

WASHINGTON POST (RUTH MARCUS)
Leaving abortion to the states makes them agents of oppression

PART 2 (13:19 - 19:56):
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The Radical Claim of Autonomy Threatens Human Dignity at the Beginning and End of Life and Confuses Human Gender and Sexuality at Every Point in Between

CNN (ALEXIS DRUTCHAS)
In America, is bodily autonomy a human right?

PART 3 (19:57 - 25:19):
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The Olympics No Longer Knows the Difference Between Male and Female: A Reminder That Ontology Always Trumps Autonomy

REUTERS

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:28):
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New York City Holds Primary Election Today: What Will the Election Results from the American Epicenter of Culture, Economics, and Influence Tell Us?

PART 2 (7:29 - 14:42):
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What Is Ranked Choice Voting? How This Form of Voting Weakens Democratic Process

PART 3 (14:43 - 23:8):
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Always Pay Attention to the Vocabulary: The Department of Veteran Affairs Will Begin Offering “Gender Confirmation Surgeries”

NEW YORK TIMES (ANNIE KARNI)
V.A. Plans to Offer Gender Confirmation Surgeries for Transgender Veterans

WASHINGTON POST (MERYL KORNFIELD)
VA plans to offer gender-confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, reversing ban

Monday, June 21, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 15:38):
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Debate Continues in the Roman Catholic Church Over Communion Rights for Politicians Who Support Abortion: The Necessity of Moral Coherence in One’s Personal and Public Life

NEW YORK TIMES (JASON HOROWITZ)
Vatican Warns U.S. Bishops: Don’t Deny Biden Communion Over Abortion

THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life

PART 2 (15:39 - 21:14):
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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Out as Prime Minister of Israel — And There’s Theology Here Under the Headlines

NEW YORK TIMES (DAVID M. HALBFINGER)
Netanyahu, ‘King of Israel,’ Exits a Stage He Dominated

PART 3 (21:15 - 24:5):
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Ebrahim Raisi, Radical Islamist, Elected as New President of Iran: Theology Always Matters and Christians Know Why

NEW YORK TIMES (DAVID E. SANGER AND FARNAZ FASSIHI)
For Biden, Iranian Hard-liner May Be Best Path to Restoring Nuclear Deal

Friday, June 18, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 18:26):
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A Huge Win for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court: What Signal Does the Unanimous Decision in Fulton v. Philadelphia Send?

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Fulton v. Philadelphia

USA TODAY (JOHN FRITZE)
Religious freedom vs. LGBTQ rights: Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster care agency

PART 2 (18:27 - 21:50):
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Education Department Announces Protection for Transgender Students Under Title IX: A Reminder That Supreme Court Decisions Can Have Seismic Effects

NEW YORK TIMES (KATIE ROGERS)
Title IX Protections Extend to Transgender Students, Education Dept. Says

PART 3 (21:51 - 24:15):
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The Moral Issues of World War II Come Rushing Back Decades Later: What Happened to Hideki Tojo’s Remains After His Execution?

NEW YORK TIMES (LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA AND HIKARI HIDA)
Where Did Hideki Tojo’s Body Go After His Execution? A Mystery Is Solved.

Thursday, June 17, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 10:22):
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A Rebound of Toxic Ideas in France: What’s Behind the French Claim That Americans Are Exporting Bad Ideas?

NEW YORK TIMES (COLE STANGLER)
France Is Becoming More Like America. It’s Terrible.

PART 2 (10:23 - 19:6):
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A Clash of Secular Worldviews in France: What Happens When a Secular Society Can No Longer Take Any Theological Argument Seriously?

NEW YORK TIMES (NORIMITSU ONISHI)
The Mayor, the Teacher and a Fight Over a ‘Lost Territory’ of France

PART 3 (19:7 - 23:1):
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What Will the Political Future of the United States Look Like If the Nation Continues to Secularize? Why There Can Be No Rescue from Ideology by Ideology

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN)
How Is The GOP Adjusting To A Less Religious America?

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 14:24):
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It’s Now Considered Morally and Ecologically Problematic to Have a Child. Really? A Consideration of This Direct Rejection of the Biblical Worldview

VOGUE MAGAZINE (NELL FRIZZELL)
Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?

NATIONAL REVIEW (MARIAN L. TUPY)
Against Environmental Anti-humanism

PART 2 (14:25 - 19:5):
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Readers of the New York Times Celebrate the Declining Birthrate, Citing Warnings of a Coming Dystopian Future: But When Is This Long-Prophesied Ecological Disaster Supposedly Coming?

NEW YORK TIMES (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
Let’s Celebrate a Lower Birthrate, Not Lament It

PART 3 (19:6 - 23:33):
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Watch Out! 15 Wild (And Potentially Drunk) Elephants Take a Wild Journey Across China

WALL STREET JOURNAL (SHA HUA)
A Herd of Wild Elephants Wandering Across China Captivates Millions

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 13:17):
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Unarmed Drone Technology Raises Huge Questions When Considering Just War Theory: How Should We Think About This New Technology?

WALL STREET JOURNAL (JAMES MARSON AND BRETT FORREST)
Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics

PART 2 (13:18 - 18:9):
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The Scariest Headline in Recent Days? A Military Drone in Libya Controlled by Artificial Intelligence May Have Carried Out an Attack on Its Own

NEW YORK TIMES (MARIA CRAMER)
A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says

PART 3 (18:10 - 25:28):
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Wounded by the Battle: How Drone Operators Face the Inescapable Horror of War

WALL STREET JOURNAL (WAYNE PHELPS)
The Psychic Toll of Killing With Drones