We're in a fight right now for the future of Western civilization and for the preservation of free speech.

And I view all of my commentary work and all of my interests in the American political system through that lens.

CNN political analyst Scott Jennings talking about his presentation at this year's issues, etc., making the case conference.

We have to preserve Western civilization. We have to preserve Western civilization.

We have to preserve free speech.

And I think most issues and most politics comes down to those two fundamental issues.

I think it's good for audiences to have their bubbles popped.

I think it's all too easy in American political culture right now

to get yourself in a silo or in a bubble where only the

information that you want to hear that confirms your priors is what you see. And I think it's detrimental

to the average citizen to be stuck in a silo or a bubble like that. You can meet and hear Scott Jennings

at the 2025 making the case conference Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Find out more at Issuesetc.org.

The following is an encore presentation of Issues, Et cetera.

Music Look, I mean, if the Lord Almighty came out,

and said, Joe, get out of the race, I'd get out of the race,

and Lord Almighty's not coming down.

If you say you don't like cultural Christianity,

sometimes I think what people don't realize is every culture will have

some sort of social and moral foundation.

I tend to think Christianity is a good one, and it's worked for our culture and society

for a really long time.

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