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The Trump Indictment and Whataboutism
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58 minutes
Released:
Jun 12, 2023
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Podcast episode
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This week, Eric and Dan are joined by Emily Zanotti, a new contributing editor at the Acton Institute, as they tackle the latest indictment of former president Donald Trump. Again we ask: Does the act of indicting a former president and current candidate for president alone render America a banana republic? What’s the difference between this case and cases of other prominent politicians—such as Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton—mishandling classified information? If there is a double standard at play, how do we rectify that situation to make it a single standard going forward? Next, the group examines comments by Bishop Athanasius Schneider that Catholics can’t suffer from depression. How should we think about the power of faith in the context of mental illness? How much of this is an overreaction to the seeming obsession with mental health problems in the modern world? And finally, we take a look at the lives of two very different people who passed away this week: Christian TV broadcaster and founder of Regent University Pat Robertson and the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
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Indictment of former president Donald Trump
Trump Indicted Over Documents | The Morning Dispatch
Catholics cannot be depressed | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Twitter
Died: Pat Robertson, Broadcast Pioneer Who Brought Christian TV to the Mainstream | Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today
Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81 | New York Times
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Indictment of former president Donald Trump
Trump Indicted Over Documents | The Morning Dispatch
Catholics cannot be depressed | Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Twitter
Died: Pat Robertson, Broadcast Pioneer Who Brought Christian TV to the Mainstream | Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today
Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81 | New York Times
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jun 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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Are we prepared for exponential technological growth?: <p>This week, Eric Kohn, Stephen Barrows, and Dan Churchwell discuss the new vaccine mandate President Joe Biden has announced for businesses larger than 100 employees, to be administered by OSHA. In what ways are they failing to consider the role of incentives, and what unintended consequences might this effort have? Will it just drive people further into their political corners and continue to undermine faith in our institutions? Then, they discuss a new piece in Wired from Azeen Azhar about the concept of exponential growth. Are we prepared for a time when technological growth happens at a blinding pace? Can we even effectively prepare for it? Are we at all prepared to cope with the unrest that it will create?</p><br><p><strong>Subscribe to </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonunwind" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Acton Unwind</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.acton.org/actonline" re by Acton Unwind