Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 10:31)
Does the U.S. Have the Determination to Defend Itself? The ‘Test Case’ of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University

Part II (10:31 - 15:49)
Which Faculty at Columbia University Support Its Campus Protests? The Unveiling of the Worldview Divide Between Columbia’s Faculty Departments

Faculty-on-Faculty War Erupts at Columbia as Trump Targets Elite School by The Wall Street Journal (Douglas Belkin)

Part III (15:49 - 20:00)
What Kind of Society Allows for Subversive Acts Against Its Own Existence? Western Civilization Cannot Survive If It Does Not Defend Itself

Mahmoud Khalil is a test case for the survival of Western civilisation by The Telegraph (Simon Hankinson)
Mahmoud Khalil and His Green Card by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

Part IV (20:00 - 27:00)
The University Must Serve More Than a Political Purpose: The University Must Serve the Universals of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

The End of the University as We Know It by The New York Times (Meghan O’Rourke)

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, March 18, 2025. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.1	Most Americans probably know by now that Columbia University there in New York City is pretty much the epicenter of some of the big controversies of
0:22.7	our day. At the center of that controversy is a young Palestinian man in the United States as a
0:28.3	legal resident with a green card. His name is Mahmoud Khalil, and he was in many ways the symbolic
0:34.8	head of the Palestinian supporting demonstrations over the past
0:39.1	couple of years there at Columbia. He's been closely identified with the Palestinian cause,
0:44.3	and the Trump administration moved to deny his permanent resident status and basically
0:50.1	to undo his residential claims and to deport him simply because he has declared himself,
0:56.3	in effect, the enemy of the United States government.
0:59.8	Now, there's a lot to unpack here.
1:01.8	Immediately on the left, you have cries that this is a violation of academic freedom.
1:05.6	It's a violation of free speech.
1:07.1	And you have the constant arguments coming that the right of free speech, including for
1:13.0	a resident alien, a permanent resident, it is irrevocable and it trumps every other right
1:18.9	and every other concern. And then you have those on the other side who are saying, you know,
1:22.7	what kind of society would effectively commit suicide by willfully bringing people in who want to see the demise of
1:30.5	that very nation and society along with those of its allies. So as you look at this, you recognize
1:37.1	the worldview issues are thick and they are many. Quite frankly, the most we can do is to kind of
1:42.5	take a stick at whacking this question and see how many worldview issues we can deal with at one time.
1:48.8	One of them is, what in the world does it mean for someone to be here on this kind of status?
1:54.8	In this case, it is a young man who applied to come to the United States to study at Columbia University and was granted permanent
2:02.6	resident status. Now, what does that mean? It means that the person is not merely here on some
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