This is Molly Hemingway of the Federalist, inviting you to join me for the 2026 Issues, Etc, Making the Case Conference, Friday, June 12th, and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia University, Chicago.

I'll be speaking and signing copies of my new book, Alito, the Justice who reshaped the Supreme Court and restored

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The emperor has no clothes on. He's buck naked. That child had to speak the truth no matter how it would make the king feel. And we have to do that today. We have to be very conscientious objectors to the madness that is gender ideology. And most people default into this idea of feminism is this idea that men are contemptible,

which is of course the idea behind the smashing the patriarchy and women need to be just like them and have the same equality.

The Crusades were a very belated response to many centuries of Muslim conquests,

in which two-thirds of the old Christian world had already fallen to Muslim conquest.

And our faith is strong not because of the fervor of its affection but because of the object to which it clings

Christ and there is no stronger faith than a really timid grasping to the suffering

death and resurrection of Jesus. Families sailing on their family vacation on lakes in Minnesota love issues, et cetera.

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So far we have learned a lot about the Crusades that you wouldn't find in your average history book.

Your average history book, a high school history book, if it even includes the Crusades, is going to say something about colonialism and Christian aggression and things like that, ignoring pretty much all of the context of these warlike periods.

Well, the third crusade, we found out, was an abject failure.

It left Jerusalem in the hands of Muslims, got a few concessions.

I wonder what the next crusade will bring.

Greetings then. Welcome to Issues, et cetera, live on this Friday afternoon.

June the 5th, I'm Todd Wilkin.

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We'll be in part three of our series on the Crusades with Dr. Thomas

Madden, author of The Concise History of the Crusades. Dr. Ken Sherb joins us for part three of our

series on 19th century Lutheran theologian and missionary Friedrich Winnikin. And then we'll round

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