The Briefing 10-19-17

PART I The Caliphate in retreat: Coalition forces seize Raqqa from the Islamic State

PART II The resistance of secular Westerners to recognize the Islamic nature of the Islamic State

PART III Chinese President Xi outlines vision for total Communist control in 3½ hour speech

PART IV A teacher’s chilling question from rural China

The Briefing 10-18-17

PART I Dance of legislation in CA shows the danger to religious liberty across the country

PART II Major American liberal political figure shifts on political spectrum without ever moving

PART III Why the issue of gambling is often overlooked as a major moral issue

The Briefing 10-17-17

PART I The religion of birth control and it’s doctrinal enforcers

PART II “Buyer’s remorse” for religious liberty among supporters of the sexual revolution.

PART III The AP Stylebook goes to war against human nature

PART IV A warning about warnings: Why we should make our warnings fewer and make them stick

The Briefing 10-16-17

PART I Fire in Northern California: One of humanity's deadliest enemies

PART II Concern emerges as marijuana crop goes up in smoke

PART III Hollywood expels one of its own leading figures for the very misbehavior it sells in movies

The Briefing 10-13-17

PART I Who is responsible for the secularization of America’s young people?

PART II Whose priorities are fueling the secularization of America’s youth: parents, professors, or both?

PART III What are marketers telling us about millennials?

PART IV Worldview Book Recommendation: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

The Briefing 10-12-17

PART I The next step in the evolution of the Boy Scouts of America: accepting girls

PART II The words "boys" and "girls" are becoming increasingly ironic

PART III The Pope condemns the death penalty

PART IV The importance of Sola Scriptura asserts itself on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

The Briefing 10-11-17

PART I Historic College at Oxford says Christianity is just too harmful for freshmen

PART II Why are advertisers turning to porn as a data metric?

PART III A fact checker discovers that America really is an outlier on abortion

The Briefing 10-10-17

PART I When did the Kennedy family change its position on abortion?

PART II Alabama Senate candidate flaunts pro-abortion position. Why are the media ignoring it?

PART III The rise of the occult in headlines from Africa

PART IV What Sally Quinn’s fascination with the occult tells us about high society and ourselves

The Briefing 10-09-17

PART I A clash of orthodoxies: Trump administration's reversal of contraception mandate sets off firestorm

PART II Two different conceptions of how to read a law on display in AG Session’s Title VII guidance

PART III Why rival charges of hypocrisy are sometimes both right

The Briefing 10-06-17

PART I Partisanship comes to late-night: What the turn in comedy tells us about the culture

PART II Dark, anxious, and realistic: Why comedians now want audiences to wince while they laugh

PART III Art as a form of moral subversion: Exhibit about gender aims to upend very idea of gender

PART IV Worldview book recommendation: “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro