The Briefing 02-24-15

Podcast Transcript

1) Primacy of the ‘sovereign self’ causing global deterioration of the family

The Global Flight From the Family, Wall Street Journal (Nicholas Eberstadt)

Saving migrants’ lives should pose no dilemma for Europe, Financial Times

2) Losing the war for the family inevitably undermines US ‘War on Poverty’

All the Way With LBJ, Wall Street Journal (Arthur Herman)

3) First year of same sex marriage in Illinois exposes conflicting absolute values of moral revolutionaries

More than 6,500 Illinois same-sex marriage ceremonies in 2014, Chicago Sun Times

4) Sex-selective abortion ban debate reveals conflict between feminist and abortionist values

A vote to criminalise gender-selective abortion will be a disaster for women, The Guardian (Rebecca Schiller)

5) Error leading to arrest of jewelry thieves displays stupidity of sin

Inside Man in Paris Jewelry Holdups Admits to His Role, and Stupidity, New York Times (Doreen Carvajal)