Greetings. It's Thursday, May the 21st, 2026, and we're glad you've joined us for Denison

Forum's Daily Article Podcast, written today by Cultural Apologist and co-founder Dr. Jim

Denison. I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. The late show with Stephen Colbert will air its last show tonight.

Why should you care?

The ending could be nostalgic if you're old enough to remember when David Letterman started this show in 1993

after being passed over as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show.

You might care about the controversy over the show's ending.

Some claim that CBS acted for political reasons, while others point to reports that the show

has been losing $40 million a year. I think the show's ending is relevant for a different reason.

As Elié Izadi reports in the Washington Post, quote,

we no longer choose from a handful of late-night hosts to get our fix of breezy celebrity

interviews. There's a seemingly endless supply of video podcasts for that, end quote.

She quotes Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of television in popular culture,

like all broadcast television, it was cultural glue. We all fed from the same cultural trough

at the same time. That is gone and only remains in a few pockets, and those pockets are falling

one by one. When Colbert leaves, another one of those important pockets

will have fallen, end quote. As we focus this week on finding hope in surprising places,

I'd like to suggest that losing such cultural glue is good for our culture and for our souls.

America is commonly called a democracy, but this is not the whole story.

A true democracy would rule by simple majority, take a vote, and do whatever 50% plus one want to do.

Our founders were wiser than that. Many knew what it was like to be in the minority,

whether it was their religious affiliation,

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