Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the death of Paul Ehrlich, the problems with population control ideology, if medical associations will backpedal from the transgender revolution, new legislation in California that would require insurance companies to cover female medical procedures that are biologically impossible for men, another woke ruling and its controversy in California, and what nudism in the headlines lays bare about our cultural moment.
Part I (00:13 – 09:36)
The Death of Paul Ehrlich: Author of “The Population Bomb” and Prophet of the Culture of Death Dies at 93
Part II (09:36 – 19:53)
Reality vs. the Population Control Worldview: Evidence Did Not Confirm Ehrlich’s Population Control Hypothesis – So as a Scientist, Why Didn’t He Change His Theory?
- Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93 by The New York Times (Keith Schneider)
Population Control vs. Creation Order: By Definition, Population Control Cannot Be the Real Problem When the Creator Has Told Us to Be Fruitful and Multiply
Part IV (20:21 – 22:29)
Will Medical Associations Backpedal from the Transgender Revolution? Money and Ideology are Driving the LGBTQ Revolution
Part V (22:29 – 23:14)
The Transgender Revolution Rolls On? New Legislation in California Would Require Insurance Companies to Cover Female Medical Procedures That Are Biologically Impossible for Men
Part VI (23:14 – 25:10)
Another Woke Ruling in California: A 9th Circuit Ruling and Its Dissent Have Caused a Big Controversy
- Olympus Spa vs. Armstrong by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Rules For Nude Cruises? That Nudism is News Lays Bare Our Cultural Moment
- Yes, there are nude cruises. An insider explains what you should know by USA Today (Nathan Diller)
- Nudist Camp for Sale: The Rise and Fall of the Florida Naturist Park by The New York Times (Ronda Kaysen)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 17, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | The biggest news we can talk about today is the fact that Paul Ehrlich has died at the age of 93. |
| 0:20.3 | He died on the 13th of March, and now we're just getting |
| 0:24.4 | media coverage of the fact that Paul Erlich, long time professor, decades-long professor at |
| 0:29.5 | Stanford University, has died. Now, why is that so important? Well, when you look at the history |
| 0:35.9 | of the 20th century, one of the things that |
| 0:37.6 | will become glaringly apparent is that there were certain persons with outsized influence, |
| 0:42.6 | and in the case of Paul Ehrlich, a very malign, a very dangerous outsized influence. He was a professor, |
| 0:49.5 | as I said, for decades at Stanford University, and he was the author of the 1968 book, The Population |
| 0:56.2 | Bomb, in which he made the argument that there were too many human beings on the planet |
| 1:01.1 | and that the birth rate had to be brought down fast and even by political coercion. And he had |
| 1:07.9 | already warned in 1968, it is too late. In that book, he began with this argument, quote, |
| 1:13.6 | the battle to feed all of humanity is over. |
| 1:16.6 | In the 1970s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death |
| 1:19.6 | in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. |
| 1:22.6 | At this late date, nothing can prevent a substantial increase |
| 1:25.6 | in the world death rate." You'll notice he said it's already too late, but even as he says that, he wrote the book |
| 1:31.9 | because he wanted something to happen. |
| 1:34.0 | And he became the most famous worldwide advocate for population control. |
| 1:39.5 | And population control, of course, means having fewer babies. |
| 1:43.2 | And population control eventually is going to require |
| 1:46.7 | government coercion. And you'll notice that Paul Ehrlich was pretty bold about saying, yeah, that's |
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