Good day. It's Tuesday, March the 31st, 2026, and I'm Chris Elkins narrating today's

Daily article podcast from Denison Forum. Today's daily article is authored by friend and co-founder,

Dr. Jim Denison. My wife and I drove past a no-kings rally in our city last Saturday, where we saw a sign that said

be kind. Another announced its rainbow colors, love wins. Next to them, paradoxically, a man was waving

his hand-lettered whiteboard, expletive-deleted, Trump. Not to be partisan, but signs using a euphemism for the same expletive abounded when Joe Biden

was president. This bipolarity is reflected and empowered by the media daily. If a new article

in the Atlantic is to be believed, America, under Donald Trump, is now a

rogue superpower. However, if a recent editorial in Fox News is correct, Trump is breaking

Middle East's old power structure in ways that will produce more positive geopolitical alignments

in the future. You can buy a yard sign displaying

a maga-acrostic morons are governing America. Or you can purchase one proclaiming,

Trump was right about everything. If you're somewhere in the middle, you're out of yard sign luck.

Our constitutional democracy is built on dichotomies, church and state, executive and legislative,

public and private.

This ability to balance apparent contradictions in the service of the greater good

finds intellectual roots in the thoughts of St. Augustine, who focused broadly on them.

He saw humans as living in the two

cities of God and man, believe that God could be understood through rational categories,

but that biblical revelation is essential, and popularized the word Trinity to describe the Lord's

three in oneness. But living intention is hard. It is easier to believe that

something is completely true or completely false, that we should always vote for Democrats or

for Republicans, that President Trump is always wrong or always right, and AI isn't helping.

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