The Rise of Antisemitism – Dr. David Azerrad, 1/22/26 (0222)
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Dr. David Azerrad of Hillsdale College
The Return of the Jewish Question
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
| 0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
| 0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
| 0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests, expansive topics, always extolling Christ, issues, etc. |
| 0:33.8 | This is what's missed a lot in the discussion about feminism. |
| 0:41.1 | Most of these women were former mainline Protestants, and almost all of them, after they had |
| 0:47.1 | kind of a conversion where they left mainline Protestantism, they ended up becoming |
| 0:50.8 | Unitarians. |
| 0:51.7 | The part of the Christian gospel that is most offensive to people is the part that points |
| 0:56.7 | out our sin and our need for Christ. |
| 0:59.0 | However, when you talk about doing things like feeding the poor and other social justice-type |
| 1:04.0 | things, those are not offensive. |
| 1:06.0 | Those can be very, very popular when they're not tethered to a gospel message. |
| 1:10.0 | When we're using extra biblical stories, what's being conjured up is feeling and sentiment |
| 1:15.2 | that this illustration is supposed to engender. |
| 1:18.1 | And what goes by the wayside is Christ in him crucified. |
| 1:21.2 | The Lord intends for the slavery of despair, not to end in despair, but to end in the merciful arms of the father. |
| 1:31.5 | Seamstresses love listening to issues, et cetera, while sewing baptism banners for all the new babies at church. |
| 1:41.7 | Part of it can be explained by the addiction we have to those endorphins triggered online. |
| 1:48.3 | When we see something that's transgressive or we say something that's transgressive, |
| 1:52.8 | part of it can be explained by ongoing conspiracy theories. |
| 1:56.9 | A lot of it can be explained by the deep frustration that young men in America and the West in general feel about the world around them. |
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