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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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Will the Pandemic Mean a New Era of Big Government? What’s Revealed in that Big Question



WALL STREET JOURNAL (GERALD F. SEIB AND JOHN MCCORMICK)

Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is…Back



PART 2
(12:2 - 19:26):

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Who Will Get to Define the Next Era of the American Experiment? It’s a Big Issue Beneath the Headlines



NEW YORK TIMES (MICHELLE GOLDBERG)

The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?



PART 3
(19:27 - 26:40):

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There Is Nothing More Expensive Than ‘Free' — A Basic Fact of Life Exposed in the Rent Strike Movement



NEW YORK TIMES (MATTHEW HAAG AND CONOR DOUGHERTY)

#CancelRent Is New Rallying Cry for Tenants. Landlords Are Alarmed.

Monday, May 4, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:47):

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The Limits of Rights Talk: Federal Court Declares a Constitutional Right to Literacy



NEW YORK TIMES (DANA GOLDSTEIN)

Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules



PART 2
(11:48 - 19:46):

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If Everyone Is an ‘A’ Student, Then No One Is an 'A' Student: Will COVID-19 Mean the End of Meaningful Grades and Standardized Testing?



NEW YORK TIMES (DANA GOLDSTEIN)

Should the Virus Mean Straight A’s for Everyone?



NEW YORK TIMES (ELIZABETH CURRID-HALKETT)

A Pandemic Isn’t a Reason to Abolish the SAT



PART 3
(19:47 - 24:48):

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What Does ‘Fair’ Look Like During a Pandemic? Who Decides?



WALL STREET JOURNAL (STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON)

Berkeley Schools Leave Every Child Behind



WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)

The Teachers Union Ate My Homework

A Cultural Industrial Complex: The Moral Influence of Hollywood and The Academy Awards

Last night, millions of people in the United States and around the world watched the pageantry that is the Oscars Ceremony. A fury of headlines and tweets inundated the airwaves as people responded to the winners and the losers from last night's spectacle. Notwithstanding the importance of those responses, last night revealed something more potent ...


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The Institute on Religion and Democracy Interview

Interview about The Gathering Storm: Secularism, Culture, and the Church...


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Friday, May 1, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 9:17):

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Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Moral Revolution: A New World Revealed in a Birth Announcement



NEW YORK TIMES (MARK LANDLER AND STEPHEN CASTLE)

For Boris Johnson, a Baby Amid a Dizzying Year of Peaks and Valleys



PART 2
(9:18 - 17:39):

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Did You Have a Mother? An Attempt to Turn the Entire Moral Structure of Western Society Upside Down



NEW YORK TIMES (ILIANA MAGRA)

Transgender Man in U.K. Loses Appeal to Be Listed as Father



PART 3
(17:40 - 22:16):

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U.S. Marriage Rate Hits an All-Time Low: There’s a Lot More Going On Here Than Economics



WALL STREET JOURNAL (JANET ADAMY)

U.S. Marriage Rate Plunges to Lowest Level on Record



PART 4
(22:17 - 25:1):

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75th Anniversary of the Death of Adolf Hitler: Does a Secular World Find Moral Certainty in Hitler as Antitype?

Thursday, April 30, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:51):

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Do You Believe in UFOs? What the Pentagon’s Release of “UFO” Videos Tells Us About Humanity and the Big Questions



NEW YORK TIMES (ALAN YUHAS)

The Pentagon Released U.F.O. Videos. Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Breakthrough.



PART 2
(11:52 - 23:57):

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How Does Radical Social Change Happen? Extinction Rebellion, 3.5 Percent, and the Pareto Principle



LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (JEREMY HARDING)

The Arrestables



PART 3
(23:58 - 25:19):

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A Small, Yet Committed Minority Can Transform the World: Sound Familiar?

Called to Raise Up

Called to Lead Conference...


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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 12:50):

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Life—And Politics—Goes on: Joe Biden Picks Up Endorsements from Key Democratic Women as Heat Turns Up on Sexual Assault Allegation



WALL STREET JOURNAL (JULIE BYKOWICZ)

Leading Democrats Stand Behind Biden After Sexual-Assault Allegation



USA TODAY (ALEXANDRA JAFFE)

Report: Biden accuser spoke to neighbor about alleged assault



THE ATLANTIC (PETER BEINART)

Biden Should Release His Papers



PART 2
(12:51 - 16:32):

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Contrary to His Own Claim, Kentucky’s Andy Beshear Is Not Done with Divisive Issues: Governor Vetoes Pro-Life Bill



CNN (CAROLINE KELLY)

Kentucky Democratic governor vetoes abortion bill



PART 3
(16:33 - 25:18):

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Fact Checking the “Fact Checker” Column: The Moral Insanity of the Democratic Party's Support of Late-Term Abortion



WASHINGTON POST (SALVADOR RIZZO)

Trump’s comments on Democrats and ‘late-term abortion’

Land of Hope: A Conversation with Professor Wilfred McClay about the Great American Story

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:55):

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Is Science the Answer to Death? A Secularizing Society Grapples With How To Think About Death During a Pandemic



THE GUARDIAN (YUVAL NOAH HARARI)

Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite



PART 2
(11:56 - 17:28):

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The Most Certain Thing There Is—Science? Even Commercials Have Worldviews



FIERCE PHARMA (BETH SNYDER BULIK)

Pfizer promotes prescription drug help and the power of science in new TV ads aimed at COVID-19 concerns



PART 3
(17:29 - 23:24):

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C.S. Lewis on Turning a Fascination with Science into Scientism: The Incompatibility of Scientism and the Biblical Worldview



PART 4
(23:25 - 26:55):

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Science Ends Bernie Sanders’s ‘Beauty Contest’: New York Cancels Democratic Primary



WALL STREET JOURNAL (JIMMY VIELKIND)

New York State Cancels Presidential Primary Over Sanders Camp’s Objection