Segment 1: Serious Reflections on a very Silly Week
If there were ever a week that summed up the state of our public discourse, it’s this one. Following the backlash over the image President Trump posted a few days ago, talk show host Joy Beher claimed that Jesus never actually claimed to be the Messiah – her determination to portray Trump as a narcissist was so strong she ignored basic historical fact. And Tucker Carlson tweeted that “the people in charge” don’t want you to know that the Muslim faith actually has great love and respect for Jesus – apparently forgetting the plight of Christians in Muslim-majority countries around the world. All it all, it’s been a very silly week – Marcus tries to inject some sanity.Segment 2: – The Story of the Declaration of Independence (3 segments)
Thomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence “an expression of the American mind.” Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared poetry of our political soul. Matthew Spalding joins us.
