Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 28 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 - 12:44)
The Ideological Capture of the Left: The Left is Increasingly Committed to Theory Rather Than Reality

Still Crazy… by Substack (Joe Klein)
The Democrats Show Why They Lost by The Atlantic (Jonathan Chait)
Democrats Have a New Leader but Haven’t Come to Grips With Failure by The Wall Street Journal (Molly Ball)

Part II (12:45 - 20:31)
Are We 89 Seconds to Midnight? The Scientific Community Has an Apocalyptic Worldview Too

Closer than ever: It is now 89 seconds to midnight by Bullet of the Atomic Scientists (John Mecklin)

Part III (20:31 - 27:55)
You Want a Penny For Your Thoughts? You Better Hurry: President Trump Seeks to Stop Minting the Penny

It takes nearly 4 cents to make a single penny. Here's why Trump wants them gone. by USA Today (George Petras)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, February 12, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	As we think about the world around us, we need to note that sometimes we have to have a vocabulary to explain something that happens.
0:22.2	A vocabulary that might not have been necessary, say, just a few generations ago.
0:27.1	One of the categories that is really important for us to think about is the category of ideological capture.
0:35.2	Ideological capture means that you have some sector, you have some institution, you have some area of society that has been captured by a certain ideological worldview, a certain ideological viewpoint.
0:47.3	Captured to the extent that you really have no possibility of presenting an alternative view, no possibility of presenting
0:56.4	an alternative worldview. You have a sector that has been entirely captured. So to give a classic
1:02.4	example, the ideological capture by the left of higher education in the United States, it's not
1:09.0	total, but it's approaching total. On some institutions,
1:12.6	it's absolutely total. In many professions, it's comprehensively total. But what you see is that
1:20.0	over a period of time, the left captured more and more and more of academia, institution by
1:26.2	professor by professor, department by department,
1:30.3	degree by degree, that's how it works. Eventually, the only way you can explain what happened is that
1:36.2	you had an entire sector of a society ideologically captured. Ideological capture, this becomes a very critical category.
1:46.7	And here's the thing.
1:48.1	You often see it only in clear terms once it's happened.
1:52.8	It's only once it's happened, you really see what's happened.
1:55.8	So, for example, lots of questions right now about the future of the Democratic Party.
1:59.2	Lots of people are asking, can the Democratic Party find some kind of moderating path forward? Evidently, Americans did not like
2:07.7	the positions taken by the Democratic Party. And increasingly after the election of last November,
2:13.6	a lot of Americans have said, you know, the mainstream media wants to tell us this was all about the price of eggs or whatever.
2:19.6	It was a lot more than that.
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