Dan 11:32

In this year-end show, we take a look at the year that has almost come to a close, and look forward to the year ahead. As the title of Steve Deace's recent book says, "Do what you believe, or you won't be free to believe it much longer." Using portions of Deace's book, we'll consider why it appears that freedom is endangered by encroaching tyranny, and how best to do what we believe. 

Last week we considered how the news media distorts reality and warps the minds of uncritical consumers. In this week's episode, we'll consider 10 things that we can do to, in the words of John Zada, "mitigate the impact the news has on our individual lives, and on our society."

In this week's episode, we examine how the news media distorts reality and, in the words of author John Zada, "warps our minds" when we fail to be critical and skeptical consumers of its product. 

Thomas Sowell refers to the intellectual elite as "The Anointed," and their ideology as "The Vision of the Anointed." In this episode we continue the discussion of Episode 30 about this vision, its presuppositions and goals, and how to see through the often articulate arguments of "the anointed." 

In his book Dispatches from the Vaccine Wars, Dr. Christopher A. Shaw devotes a chapter to "Vaccine Ideology and Religion." In this episode, we'll use Shaw's book as a springboard to discuss the debate over vaccines and vaccine mandates in the context of two contrasting worldviews, and the religious nature of the modern medical and scientific establishment.

In today's episode, we consider the place of the "intellectual class" in our world. We'll consider the dangers of deferring to what Thomas Sowell calls "the Anointed Class," the intelligentsia, and the class of experts whose influence only continues to grow. We also discuss why it's so important for us to know what the intellectual class is up to, since its ideas act as a contagion that threaten to infect the whole of society, and how we can confidently stand our ground in this battle. 

In this episode we examine the guiding principles behind the United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as outlined by Julian Huxley, the organization's first Director, in his book UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy. 

One of the most important factors leading to the "Sexual Revolution" of the 20th Century was the publication of The Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) in 1948. In this episode, we'll examine the work of Alfred Kinsey, his methodology, the contents of his report, and look at how his study led to societal changes that continue to the present day. 

Margaret Mead's book "Coming of Age in Samoa" took the world by storm when it was published in 1928, and, according to Sherwood Washburn, "influenced the way people were brought up in the United States" (and throughout the western world, really). It was not until the 1980s that Mead's study was revealed as being a serious misrepresentation of the culture and character of Samoa. But by that time, the damage had already been done. In this episode, we take a look at Margaret Mead's work - a case study in academic and intellectual dishonesty. 

In this episode we continue our study of the social justice movement in the evangelical church by introducing the topic of Liberation Theology. We see that there are various types of connections between the Liberation Theology movement and the current movement for "social justice" within the church, and that the history of Liberation Theology has a lot to teach us about how we should evaluate the Social Justice movement.