Wednesday, December 13, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:06)
Where is the Moral Outrage on Anti-Semitism at Harvard? President Claudine Gay Retains Her Position in the Midst of Anti-Semitic Comments and Plagiarism Allegations
- Why Defenders of Harvard’s President Are Focused on Academic Freedom by New York Times (Alan Blinder)
Part II (08:06 - 13:46)
Notice what STILL is Not Said: Evaluating the Harvard Corporation’s Support for President Claudine Gay
Part III (13:46 - 21:00)
Why is President McGill at the University of Pennsylvania Out While President Gay of Harvard is Not? As Expected, There is a Backstory
- How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill by Wall Street Journal (Melissa Korn, Rachel Louise Ensign, Douglas Belkin)
- The Politics of Campus Free Speech Draw Scrutiny by Wall Street Journal (Douglas Belkin and Laura Kusisto)
Part IV (21:00 - 25:34)
Keep Your Pet Goldfish in the Bowl: The Invasion of Goldfish Terrorizing the Great Lakes
- Once They Were Pets. Now Giant Goldfish Are Menacing the Great Lakes. by New York Times (Livia Albeck-Ripka)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 13, 2023. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.7 | Well, it's another day and Claudine Gay is still president of Harvard University. |
| 0:18.1 | That announcement came yesterday as the Harvard Corporation met over the course of two days, |
| 0:23.4 | and they were deciding the fate of their president. |
| 0:26.2 | And of course, all this controversy |
| 0:27.5 | goes back to the appearance not only of President Gay, |
| 0:30.5 | but also two other women serving as presidents of major elite American |
| 0:34.8 | institutions who sat together in a congressional hearing and basically let the |
| 0:40.8 | cat out of the bag a matter of days ago, every single one of them refusing to say |
| 0:46.0 | that calls by students or others on their campus for the genocide of the Jewish people |
| 0:50.4 | would be an actionable offense. |
| 0:52.1 | Every single one of them failed, |
| 0:54.6 | one of the most basic world tests a human being might imagine. |
| 0:58.8 | At least a phonic Republican of New York, |
| 1:00.8 | the member of Congress, who was pressing the question and seemed honestly to be |
| 1:04.6 | surprised at the failure of all three presidents to answer with any kind of moral sense |
| 1:09.4 | at all. |
| 1:10.9 | After President Elizabeth McGill at the University of Pennsylvania announced that she was |
| 1:14.5 | resigning in the wake of the controversy, Representative Stephanix had one down two to go. |
| 1:20.1 | Well the Harvard Corporation said that Claudine Gay is not going to go, that she's going to continue in her job. |
| 1:25.8 | But by the time the corporation met, they were actually having to deal with a multitude of issues. |
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