Friday, October 2, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 16:38): ────────────────── What Are Pseudo-Events? It’s Banned Books Week Again and There Is a Very Real Moral Threat Behind This Pseudo-Event WASHINGTON POST (RON CHARLES) For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. PART 2 (16:39 - 23:50): ────────────────── Threats to Religious Liberty Around the Globe: Secretary Pompeo Challenges Vatican’s Relationship with China as Religious Genocide Continues Under Xi Jinping WASHINGTON POST (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) China’s Xi is doubling down on genocide FIRST THINGS (MICHAEL R. POMPEO) China’s Catholics and the Church’s Moral Witness NEW YORK TIMES (JASON HOROWITZ AND LARA JAKES) Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns With Pope’s Critics WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) Pompeo and the Pope PART 3 (23:51 - 27:15): ────────────────── A Pseudo-Event That’s Fun For All . . . Especially the Bears: It’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park WASHINGTON POST (NATALIE B. COMPTON) Fat Bear Week is upon us. Here’s how to celebrate the big, glorious event.