Greetings. It's Monday, March the 25th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Princess Kate's video announcement that she is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer, shock the world.

Global leaders immediately joined the royal family in expressing their support for her.

A spokesman later said that she and her husband, Prince William, are extremely moved by the public's warmth and support following her announcement.

But as Helen Lewis noted in the Atlantic,

the princess was bullied into this statement because the alternative, a wildfire of gossip and

conspiracy theories, was worse. Lewis pointed to the massive online guessing game about the

reasons Kate was less visible following her abdominal surgery in January. Some even mock the

royal family and question Kate's marriage. The bottom line is that many in the press and on social

media did not trust what Kinston Palace told the world and felt free to tell her story as

it suited them. The other headline news over the weekend was the horrific shooting at a Moscow concert venue

that left at least 137 people dead, including three children.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.

US officials confirmed that claim shortly afterward and also reported that they passed secret

warnings to Russia earlier this month of a terrorist plot to target large crowds. However, Vladimir

Putin described these warnings as provocative statements that resembled outright blackmail

and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society.

Clearly, he did not trust the motives by which America shared its intelligence with his government.

Now his nation is mourning its deadliest terrorist attack in more than two decades.

Cultural commentator Jonah Goldberg wrote recently that we now live in a

philodoxical rather than a philosophical age. Philodoxy means love of opinion

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