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.

We have to get out of this trap that people have fallen into where they identify truth with feeling and get back to understanding that the best road to truth is faith and reason.

The way people are best to manipulated is when they're autonomous.

And this is what we have done to women, has told them to be by themselves, to be autonomous, to be in control in their lives, and not to in any way to be connected to husbands and children.

You know, it's important to remember, Jesus never says that we need to follow his example and die for our sins, at least on the cross.

He's accomplished that. But that doesn't mean that every day

there isn't some dying and rising

that happens in the shape of our Christian life.

And in all of these letters,

he calls us not to be successful

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