Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, March the 8th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Felipe Grande, announced this morning that 2 million people

have now fled Ukraine as conditions worsened by the day.

How did you react to this news?

I fear that you and I are becoming accustomed to this unfolding tragedy and thus inured

to the suffering we see in our daily headlines.

This is understandable, as humans can withstand only so much bad news.

In this sense, Ukraine may be turning into another version of the coronavirus pandemic.

We learned yesterday that the global COVID-19 death toll has passed six million.

If one of the six million was someone close to you,

I suspect you feel very differently about this report than those who have been spared such

tragedy so far.

Humans naturally filter the news through the lens of personal self-interest. For example, when I saw a headline about a giant spider infestation

spreading across the southern U.S., I scanned the article to learn whether these insects are poisonous or not.

They are, but their bite is so tiny that they are reportedly not much of a threat to humans.

I did the same with the news about a COVID-19 roadmap for the future, new DNA tests to detect

diseases, and to report that women who visit a

crisis pregnancy center are less likely to get an abortion. Since, like you, I engage the culture

through the prism of personal relevance, an article explaining why Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the beginning of a new Cold War

that will affect every American caught my immediate attention.

Ukraine and Russia have been engaged in conflict for many centuries.

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