NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference in the Bronx where he was endorsed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on September 17, 2025 in New York City. The endorsement from a significant Bronx politician comes after New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times declaring her support for Mamdani. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Is Mayor Zohran Mamdani Inevitable? The Muslim, Democratic Socialist Appears to Have New York Mayoral Race in the Bag, Unless Something Unexpected Happens

PART II

National Democrats are in a Panic: Mamdani is Attempting to Soften His Positions, But No One, Not Even Democrats, Believes Him

PART III

Socialism Always Fails – History Makes That Point Emphatically and Brutally Clear

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

PART I
A Dark Picture in Every Way: Utah Prosecutors Formally Charge Tyler Robinson, and the Evidence is Horrifying
PART II
New York Judge Undermines Justice: State Judge Dismisses Two Serious Counts in Luigi Mangione Case

PART III
The Moral Discounting of ‘Violence’: The Leftist Redefinition of the Term 'Violence' is Diminishing the Actual Meaning of Violence
PART IV
SCOTUS’s Sad Order on Bathrooms: SCOTUS Allows for So-Called ‘Transgender Boy’ to Use Boys’ Restroom in South Carolina
PART V
Hong Kong Lawmakers Say No to Same-Sex Marriage Bill: Hong Kong Lawmakers Understand the Interconnectedness of Marriage to Other Issues
PART VI
Our Civilization Crisis Summed Up in a Real Estate Ad: A Berkshire Hathaway Ad Points to Society’s Breakdown of Marriage and Family
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

PART I
When You Know There Is More to the Story: Looking at a Big Story at The Washington Post
PART II
Evangelical Political Engagement: The Necessity of a Shared Project in Civil Engagement

PART III
The Radical Gen. Z Divide: In Recent Poll, U.S. Conservative Young Men Rank Having Children Top Priority, While Young Liberal Women Rank It Near Bottom
PART IV
The Progressive Middle Class and the Future of the Nation: Is the Middle Class Progressively More Liberal? Christian Parents, Beware
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Monday, September 15, 2025

PART I
The Arrest of Tyler Robinson: What Do We Know About the Suspect of Charlie Kirk’s Murder?
PART II
The Dark Mixture of Transgenderism and Shooters: Gov. Cox Confirms Robinson’s Boyfriend Claims Transgender Identity

PART III
Justice for Charlie Kirk: As Christians, We Must Keep the Most Important Things Central Even as Other Issues Press on the American Conscience
PART IV
The Murder Chic on the Left: This Response is Evil and Utterly Shocking – How Did It Become a Pattern for the Ideological Left?

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The Briefing 10-06-17

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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

The Briefing 10-05-17

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After House passes 20-week abortion ban, sanctity of human life could hang by a Senate rule

PART II

While upholding sanctity of life with his vote, PA congressman undermines it in personal life

PART III

Political hypocrisy on the sanctity of life is not only immoral and humiliating, it’s deadly

The Briefing 10-04-17

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How to speak in the aftermath of a massacre, even in a context of controversy

PART II

Awkwardness in using the word evil reveals bigger problems

PART III

When the Archbishop of Canterbury won’t answer the question, he actually has answered the question

The Briefing 10-03-17

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The moral vocabulary of pure evil in the aftermath of Las Vegas

PART II

The importance of moral facts, not just moral values, and the reality of evil

PART III

Why, in times of trouble, the American people expect their president to quote Scripture

The Briefing 10-02-17

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The intersection of natural disaster and political leadership in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

PART II

The looming humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and the ineffectual nature of the United Nations

PART III

Achievement and fragility of the nation-state on display as Kurds and Catalans push for independence

The Briefing 09-29-17

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A pornographic revolution, Playboy, and the death of Hugh Hefner

PART II

The lie at the heart of ‘Banned Books Week’

PART III

‘No problem’ or ‘You’re welcome’? Exploring the link between language and etiquette

PART IV

Worldview book recommendation: Wired for Intimacy

The Briefing 09-28-17

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What does Roy Moore’s victory mean for the Republican party and the state of American politics?

PART II

Why the collapse of morality inevitably leads to the failure of etiquette

PART III

As life expectancy for those born with Down syndrome increases, the womb becomes more dangerous

The Briefing 09-27-17

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Marriage no longer the default way to form a family in the United States

PART II

Why international organizations fail to deliver world peace

PART III

What the quest for self-fulfillment in the 1970s bequeathed to America today

PART IV

Major American newspapers divide Americans into the dead and the pre-dead

The Briefing 09-26-17

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Discussion over whether to arm British police represents not just a policy debate, but a moral one

PART II

For one British retailer, labels on kids' clothes are now a vehicle for the sexual revolution

PART III

Contrary to predictions, last Saturday was not the end of the world

The Briefing 09-25-17

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The collision of politics and professional sports as Trump clashes with NBA and NFL

PART II

Merkel elected to fourth term as we witness the dawn of a new political era in Germany

PART III

Danger in diplomacy: Is North Korea even a rational actor?

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