Past Episodes

Friday, October 16, 2020

PART I Undercutting the Legitimacy of the Democratic Process: Both Major Candidates Have Spoken Irresponsibly about the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election

PART II The Challenges of the Voting Process in a COVID-19 Reality: Why a Delay in Election Results Could Undermine American Confidence in the Vote

PART III Plot to Kidnap Governors Northam and Whitmer Is Immoral, Illegal, and Illegitimate: A Republic Cannot Withstand Terrorism From Within

PART IV A Sign of the Imago Dei: Our Actions in the Present Have Consequences in the Future, Even if That Action Is Casting Your Ballot

Thursday, October 15, 2020

PART I Confirmation Hearings for Amy Coney Barrett Conclude: What Are Super Precedents and Is Roe v. Wade One of Them?

PART II Senator Hirono Chastises Judge Barrett for Using the Term “Sexual Preference” — What’s it All About?

PART III The Breakneck Speed of the Sexual Revolution: Merriam-Webster Updates Dictionary Hours After Hirono’s Attack on Barrett’s Choice of Vocabulary

PART IV What Goes Around Actually Doesn’t Come Around? “Karma” Doesn’t Mean What Many Westerners Might Think

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

PART I Joe Biden Is “Not a Fan” of Court Packing? Why the Former Vice President Won’t Give a Clear Answer on the Issue

PART II House Democrats Introduce Legislation to Create Process to Examine Presidential Sanity: When Something “Isn’t about the Election,” It’s Always about the Election

PART III What Kind of Government Does the United States Have? There’s a Distinction Between Direct Democracy and a Constitutional Republic . . . And It Matters

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

PART I The Issues Revealed—On the First Day of the Confirmation Hearings the Big Issues Arise, in the Senate and in the Press

PART II Watch the Language: What’s the Difference Between a Right and a Fundamental Right?

PART III Who Gets to Decide Political Issues? The Legislature or the Supreme Court? Why the Platform Policies of the Left Depend on Judicial Activism

Monday, October 12, 2020

PART I All Eyes on Washington, DC as Confirmation Hearings Begin for Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett — What to Watch For as the Hearings Unfold

PART II The Politics Will Be Front and Center in Today’s Confirmation Hearings: America’s Senior Political Class in the Spotlight

PART III Challenges to Religious Freedom in the Midst of the Pandemic: Churches and Other Religious Groups Face Discrimination From Overreaching Governments

Friday, October 9, 2020

PART I Policy Differences on Clear Display in Vice Presidential Debate: Obamacare, Abortion, Court Packing, and More

PART II What Happened to Political Courage? Former Vice President Joe Biden Refuses to Reveal His Position on Court Packing

PART III Opening the Door to a Dangerous Biotechnological Revolution: Nobel Prize Awarded to Two Scientists who Pioneered CRISPR Gene Editing Tool

PART IV Who Was That Fly and Why Were We All So Fascinated by It? A Big Lesson from a Little Creature

Thursday, October 8, 2020

PART I What Do Americans Really Think about Abortion? Really Important Insights on How Americans Think About Life

PART II Givenness and the Good Life: What Does the Christian Worldview Say about Who We Are and How We Came to Be?

PART III Every Human Life Is Sacred and Honored, No Matter How It Came to Be

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

PART I Party Positions, Presidential Succession, and Plexiglass? Setting the Stage for Tonight’s Vice Presidential Debate

PART II If Elected, Joe Biden Wants to Legislate Roe v. Wade: What This Really Means

PART III The City of Louisville Bans “Conversion Therapy” for Minors: A Very Real Threat to Religious Liberty, and to Young People

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

PART I The Newly Invented Rights of the Sexual Revolution vs. The Future of Religious Liberty in the United States: Much Is at Stake as New Supreme Court Term Begins

PART II The Scandal of Amy Coney? She’s a Roman Catholic Who Believes Roman Catholic Doctrine. This Will Happen to Evangelicals, Too

PART III Chrissy Teigen and John Legend and the Heartbreak of Miscarriage: Another Recognition of the Intrinsic Value of Human Life from the Moment of Conception

PART IV While Society Says There Is No Such Thing as the Gender Binary, the National Zoo Announces that New Baby Panda Is a Boy

Monday, October 5, 2020

PART I COVID-19 Reaches the Oval Office—What Does President Trump’s Illness Mean for the Nation?

PART II The Clock Is Ticking: The Timely Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in Spotlight as Three Republican Senators Test Positive for COVID-19

PART III A Sex Scandal and a Positive COVID-19 Result: A Big Test Facing the Voters of North Carolina

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