Thursday, May 29, 2025

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:14 - 06:50)
Why Has President Trump Has Declared War on Harvard? An Open Challenge to a Bastion of the Educational Elites

• Does the President Want to Fix Harvard or Destroy It? by The Wall Street Journal (Jason L. Riley)

Part II (06:50 - 10:16)
‘Trust Us, We Won the Johan Skytte Award’: The Self-Congratulatory Condescension of the Academic Elites

• Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out by Financial Times (Francis Fukuyama and others)

Part III (10:16 - 16:27)
President Trump Changed the Political Landscape: Americans Now Believe That Republicans Represent the Working Class, and Democrats Represent the Elites

• How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape by The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher)

Part IV (16:27 - 21:50)
‘Be Normal. Sound Normal.’: Democrats are Attempting to Dump Their Woke Jargon, But Not Their Woke Ideologies– But It’s Not Working

• Democrats ditch woke jargon to win back Trump voters by The Telegraph (Benedict Smith)

Part V (21:50 - 25:58)
Woke Education is the Left’s Agenda: The Left Wants Your Kids, and They are Targeting Them Through Schools

• Woke Education Is Going Strong, Even in Middle America by The Wall Street Journal (Daniel Buck)

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