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Thursday, June 11, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:10):

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What’s Behind the Movement to Defund or Abolish the Police? More Than You Probably Think



CARDOZO LAW REVIEW (V. NOAH GIMBEL & CRAIG MUHAMMAD)

Are Police Obsolete? Breaking Cycles of Violence Through Abolition Democracy



HARVARD LAW REVIEW (ALLEGRA M. MCLEOD)

Envisioning Abolition Democracy



NEW YORK TIMES (JONATHAN MARTIN, ALEXANDER BURNS, AND THOMAS KAPLAN)

Biden Walks a Cautious Line as He Opposes Defunding the Police



PART 2
(11:11 - 19:24):

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Huge Worldview Issues Behind the Calls for Transformation of the Justice System



PART 3
(19:25 - 26:23):

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The Task of Reckoning with Historical Symbols: NASCAR Announces Ban on Confederate Flag



ASSOCIATED PRESS (DAN GELSTON)

NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races and properties

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:36):

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What Does a Survey Reveal? Don’t Trust the Media Headlines



WALL STREET JOURNAL (MICHAEL C. BENDER)

Americans Are More Troubled by Police Actions in Killing of George Floyd Than by Violence at Protests, Poll Finds



USA TODAY (WILLIAM CUMMINGS)

Four in Five Voters Say the Nation Is ‘Out of Control,’ Poll Finds



PART 2
(11:37 - 19:59):

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Our Dangerous Age of Feelings



PART 3
(19:60 - 26:50):

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Sin Is Still Big Business in a Pandemic: The Parable of Opening Las Vegas



NEW YORK TIMES (JO BECKER)

‘Cruise Ships on Land’: As Las Vegas Reopens, a Huge Test for Casinos



WALL STREET JOURNAL (KATHERINE SAYRE)

Gamblers Drive Hours and Wait in Lines, as Casinos Reopen Amid Coronavirus



USA TODAY (DAWN GILBERTSON)

‘Best Day Ever’: Gamblers Flock to Downtown Las Vegas on First Night of Casino Reopenings



NEW YORK TIMES (PATRICK KINGSLEY)

Baptist 21 Virtual Panel 2020

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 13:15):

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Rewriting the Bible? The Crackdown on Christianity in China



WALL STREET JOURNAL (MATTHEW TAYLOR KING)

The Gospel According to Xi



PART 2
(13:16 - 16:4):

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An Essential Stewardship of American Foreign Policy: White House Issues Executive Order on Religious Freedom



THE WHITE HOUSE (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)

Executive Order on Advancing International Religious Freedom



PART 3
(16:5 - 26:13):

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The Achievement of Stable Order in Peril: U.S. Troops Leaving Afghanistan



NEW YORK TIMES (MUJIB MASHAL)

How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage

Monday, June 8, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 7:34):

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A Parable of the Revolution That Never Ends: New York Times Editor Out



NEW YORK TIMES (MARC TRACY)

James Bennet Resigns as New York Times Opinion Editor



WASHINGTON POST (ERIK WEMPLE)

A crisis of conviction at the New York Times



PART 2
(7:35 - 11:25):

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Generational Revolt: What’s Happening in the Nation’s Most Significant Institutions of Cultural Influence



PART 3
(11:26 - 23:7):

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Now, Even Public Health Has Become an Arena for Political Ideology



CNN (MALLORY SIMON)

Over 1,000 health professionals sign a letter saying, Don't shut down protests using coronavirus concerns as an excuse





Open letter advocating for an anti-racist public health response to demonstrations against systemic injustice occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic



NEW YORK TIMES (ROSS DOUTHAT)

Why the Coronavirus Is Winning

The March Through the Institutions Brings Civil War at The New York Times

This week, The New York Times is not only publishing the news, it is the news--standing at the center of a controversy well worth watching. As it turns out, this development serves as a parable about massive worldview changes in the United States with urgent lessons about the culture....


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Why Cultural Christians Are Going Extinct

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Friday, June 5, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 15:18):

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A Parable of Our Culture: What Does the Turmoil at the New York Times Reveal about Worldview Change in America?



NEW YORK TIMES (TOM COTTON)

Send In the Troops



NEW YORK TIMES (JAMES BENNET)

Why We Published the Tom Cotton Op-Ed



WASHINGTON POST (ELAHE IZADI)

Amid staff uproar, New York Times publisher defends choice to run Tom Cotton op-ed urging military incursion into U.S. cities



PART 2
(15:19 - 21:9):

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What Is the Harm Principle? The Widespread Cultural Influence of a Moral Principle Originating From 1789



PART 3
(21:10 - 26:40):

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Young Liberals Aren’t Classically Liberal At All: Meet the New Generation of Woke, Radical Liberals

Thursday, June 4, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 4:17):

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An Update from Minnesota: New Charges Brought Against Officers Involved in George Floyd’s Death



PART 2
(4:18 - 19:28):

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When You Deny the Creation Design, Chaos Ensues: The Collision Between Transgender Advocacy and Female Athletics



NEW YORK TIMES (MICHAEL LEVENSON AND NEIL VIGDOR)

Inclusion of Transgender Student Athletes Violates Title IX, Trump Administration Says



PART 3
(19:29 - 24:36):

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A Heartbreaking Article about Parenting a ‘Nonbinary’ Child: The Responsibility of Christian Parents to Teach Their Children the Truth



NEW YORK TIMES (SANDY JORGENSON)

The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People

The Gathering Storm — Live Reading

Watch Dr. Mohler read from the first chapter of his new book, The Gathering Storm: Secularism, Culture, and the Church....


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