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.