Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:14 - 06:50)
Why Has President Trump Has Declared War on Harvard? An Open Challenge to a Bastion of the Educational Elites

Does the President Want to Fix Harvard or Destroy It? by The Wall Street Journal (Jason L. Riley)

Part II (06:50 - 10:16)
‘Trust Us, We Won the Johan Skytte Award’: The Self-Congratulatory Condescension of the Academic Elites

Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out by Financial Times (Francis Fukuyama and others)

Part III (10:16 - 16:27)
President Trump Changed the Political Landscape: Americans Now Believe That Republicans Represent the Working Class, and Democrats Represent the Elites

How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape by The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher)

Part IV (16:27 - 21:50)
‘Be Normal. Sound Normal.’: Democrats are Attempting to Dump Their Woke Jargon, But Not Their Woke Ideologies– But It’s Not Working

Democrats ditch woke jargon to win back Trump voters by The Telegraph (Benedict Smith)

Part V (21:50 - 25:58)
Woke Education is the Left’s Agenda: The Left Wants Your Kids, and They are Targeting Them Through Schools

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, May 29, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.9	Decade after decade, we have known that America's elite colleges and universities are moving left, then further left, and even further left.
0:22.3	The resistance to any kind of change, the resistance to any kind of correction has been
0:26.9	absolutely massive and almost universal. But now you have an irresistible force in the form of
0:34.2	the president to the United States, Donald J. Trump, and he is using the federal
0:38.7	budget, or at least federal monies, as a blunt instrument to try to get the attention of those
0:43.2	very elite academic institutions. Now, a good many observers are asking why exactly the
0:49.4	president is going after Harvard rather than some other institutions. And honestly, there are some other institutions
0:55.2	that are probably even more reckless and ideologically corrupted than Harvard. But the fact is
1:00.7	that Harvard is the biggest brand out there, and President Trump knows it. So it wasn't much of a
1:07.4	surprise when just days ago the White House announced that the president is issuing
1:11.4	a letter directing federal agencies to cease funding at least all discretionary programs,
1:17.5	discretionary program funding when it comes to Harvard University. The president has made the
1:22.0	claim that he'll be cutting off about $3 billion in federal funding to Harvard. Now, to just state the obvious, even an institution
1:30.2	like Harvard is going to have a very hard time dealing with a $3 billion shutoff in funding,
1:36.4	especially since so much of that funding goes to personnel. It goes to programs. It goes to
1:41.8	issues, items, it goes to priorities that are central to the institution.
1:47.5	And President Trump is basically offering a slash and burn approach when it comes to Harvard.
1:53.0	He is doing so, at least in part, to warn other institutions.
1:56.6	But even as there are so many who are looking at this and saying, this is an irresponsible,
2:02.2	savage attack upon a major academic institution that is crucial to American science and
2:07.3	innovation, the fact is that the same institution has resisted correction decade after decade.
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