The World and Everything in It: June 14, 2024

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EICHER: Myrna, what do you say we go do another program.

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! Today on Culture Friday: A gonzo journalist goes after a Supreme Court justice and a sports journalist gets a great story, too bad he didn’t recognize it.

NICK EICHER: Right, we’ll also talk about Fidelity Month and a Dad being a Dad, but did he take it too far? John Stonestreet’s standing by and we’ll talk in just a few minutes.

Also today:

AUDIO: Riley’s life is more complex now. It requires more sophisticated emotions than all of you.

Inside Out 2, a movie that helps restore Pixar’s good reputation. And later, crossword puzzles!

BROWN: It’s Friday, June 14th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Mark Mellinger with today’s news.

MARK MELLINGER, NEWS ANCHOR: Biden-Zelenskyy security deal » It’s a milestone commitment: President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a 10-year security agreement Thursday.

The president says…

BIDEN: Our goal is to strengthen Ukraine’s credible defense and deterrence capabilities for the long term.

The agreement, struck at the G7 summit in Italy, provides Patriot missiles and other air defense systems to Ukraine.

Biden says other countries expecting the same weapons from the U.S. will have to wait. Zelenskyy says he’s happy with the provisions.

ZELENSKYY: The agreement is also very specific about the supply of the necessary weapons, joint production, and strengthening of the defense industries of our countries through our cooperation.

The U.S. and Europe also agreed to keep Russian assets sanctioned until Moscow pays reparations for its invasion of Ukraine.

Plus, the allies committed to a new $50 billion loan package to help Ukraine fight for its survival.

U.S. submarine to Gitmo » The waters around Cuba are getting crowded with U.S. and Russian ships. WORLD’s Travis Kircher has more:

TRAVIS KIRCHER: U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena was making what it called a routine port visit to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, yesterday.

The fast-attack submarine is said to be on a global maritime and national defense mission.

But it comes as Russia dispatched a nuclear submarine and several frigates to the port of Havana.

The Russian fleet is also expected to make stops in Venezuela and conduct military exercises in the Caribbean.

The Pentagon says it’s taking the Russian fleet movements seriously, but that the exercises don’t pose a threat to the United States.

For WORLD I’m Travis Kircher.

Israel-Hezbollah strikes, Rafah latest » President Biden says he doesn’t expect a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas anytime soon, though he says he hasn’t given up hope.

As world leaders work to persuade Hamas to agree on a U.S.-proposed cease-fire, the Israeli military has expanded its mission in the southern Gaza strip city of Rafah.

Locals say that’s forced hundreds of people to flee their homes. Israel says it’s conducting the campaign to root out the last remnants of Hamas in southern Gaza.

SOUND: [Fires] 

Meantime, fires rage as emergency crews respond in northern Israel after Hezbollah launched rocket attacks from Lebanon on at least half a dozen Israeli military posts and bases Thursday.

The attacks are retaliation for Israel's killing of one of the group’s top commanders earlier this week, and Hezbollah says they won’t stop until there’s a cease-fire in Gaza.

SCOTUS Mifepristone ruling » The Supreme Court has ruled against pro-life doctors concerned about the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone.

Those doctors argued they could end up being forced to complete abortions in emergency rooms if the drug isn’t restricted, but the High Court unanimously ruled the physicians didn’t have standing to sue.

Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has been campaigning on expanding abortion access. She says even with Thursday’s decision, two thirds of women still live in states that restrict the drug’s use.

HARRIS: This ruling is not going to change that. So we must remain clear eyed about the threats to reproductive freedom in America and we must remain vigilant.

The ruling is the court’s first abortion decision since it overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

Senate IVF bill fails » A Democrat-backed bill to expand nationwide access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, has failed in the Senate.

It fell well short of the 60 votes needed to advance. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…

SCHUMER: Protecting IVF should’ve been the easiest ‘yes’ vote the Senate has taken all year.

Schumer says he plans to revisit the issue soon.

Pro-life groups criticized the bill, calling it too broad and warning it would allow genetic testing of embryos and selective reduction abortions.

Some Republicans reaffirmed their support for IVF, but opposed this bill calling it unnecessary and extreme.

Trump back on Capitol Hill w/GOP lawmakers » Donald Trump returned to Capitol Hill Thursday, meeting with House and Senate Republicans for the first time since January 6, 2021.

Lawmakers welcomed Trump warmly even as he reportedly called Milwaukee, which will host the GOP Convention this year, “a horrible city” during their meeting.

Trump’s explanation:

TRUMP: Well, I think it was very clear what I meant. I said we’re very concerned with crime. I love Milwaukee. I have great friends in Milwaukee.

The former president also laid out his plans for emphasizing party unity and energizing his base ahead of the 2024 election.

Lawmakers also celebrated his 78th birthday, which is today.

I’m Mark Mellinger.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, this month’s Word Play.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 14th of June, 2024.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

It’s time for Culture Friday, and joining us now is John Stonestreet. He’s president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Yes, good morning.

EICHER: I want to talk with you about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the latest attempt to scandalize him. Gonzo journalist Lauren Windsor made a surreptitious recording of conversations with Justice Justice Alito and his wife, and she portrayed them as a couple of Christian nationalists or something, who were spoiling for an opportunity to impose some kind of moral code on our happy and well functioning democracy. Miss Windsor attended a Supreme Court Historical Society function. She posed as a religious Catholic. She chatted up both of the Alitos, and so let's listen to a little bit of the recording that she posted to X.

It'll begin with Justice Alito the audio is not great, but it was, as we said, a surreptitious recording.

JUSTICE ALITO: One side or the other is going to win. I don’t know, I mean, there can be a way living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know. Because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised, really can’t be compromised. So, it’s not like we’re going to split the difference.

LAUREN WINDSOR: And that’s what I’m saying. I think that the solution really is, like, winning the moral argument. Like, people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that, to return our country to a place of godliness.

JUSTICE ALITO: Oh, I agree with you. I agree with you.

She got him to agree to try to win a moral argument. Boy, you know, I hate to burst her bubble, but I’m not sure I see what the story is. She’s getting lots of traction on the internet, and MSNBC. I didn't know about this until I read about it in The New York Times—breathlessly. Maybe the story is that some people think there needs to be a religious test for office, and if you test positive, you're not fit. John, what do you think the story is, if there's anything at all?

STONESTREET: I don't think there's a story here at all, except from a secular perspective that thinks that an extreme secular perspective, not just any secular perspective, but one that thinks it's beyond the pale for religious people to be religious. But of course, you know, newsflash, Catholics are Catholic. I know there's questions about, you know how I probably shouldn't say this – I was going to make a joke about how Catholic this pope is, but we know that Samuel Alito is, and he believes this.

Secondly, everybody on MSNBC, to a greater degree, thinks that there is a kind of winner take all on some of these issues, that there's really not room for coexistence between those who think the, for example, pre-born are humans made in the image of God and worthy of life, and those that see them as a clump of cells. And I don't think science has been ambiguous about this. I don't think theology is ambiguous about this, and I don't think anybody that takes either side seriously is ambiguous about this. You can't say that it's both right to kill and not right to kill at the same time in the same place. That's kind of a moral violation of the law of non-contradiction. And both sides believe that, not just Alito.

So the whole thing about winning and how scandalous it would be that he would say something like this. I mean, it really isn't a headline in any world. I mean, I mean, we'll get it. We hear this over and over and over, that it's just intolerable that anyone would actually take their faith seriously and apply it, you know, to America, as if that's the greatest, you know, evil that could happen.

But you know, that's just because people that are trapped in secularism often are unaware that they, too, have a worldview, and they're often unaware that that worldview is just as religious in the sense that it begins with a belief in what is ultimate reality, and then goes to a belief about what is true about the human person, and then goes to a belief about what is right and wrong, and also what the end of history is. And it's a competing worldview, but then they don't often realize that.

EICHER: Right. Well, John, you know, we had another one of those moments in sports journalism. We had a reporter covering the NBA Finals. He was looking to get a racial angle, because in the finals, with Game 4 tonight, you know, noting that both of the coaches competing with one another are black, and Coach Joe Mazzulla, who happens to be a serious Catholic, was not willing to go along. Just in case you didn't hear the exchange, let's have a listen in.

VINCE GOODWILL: Hey Joe, Vince Goodwill, Yahoo Sports. For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA Finals where you have two black head coaches. Given the plight sometimes with black coaches in the NBA, do you think is a significant moment. How do you view this, or do you not see it at all?

JOE MAZZULA: I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches.

Okay, listen carefully. You hear that? You may mistake that for silence. That's not silence. That's eight seconds of a narrative completely unraveling.

You know, one would think that a journalist would say, you know, that's an interesting angle. Hadn't thought about that. Maybe we should call around the league and find out, or something like that. Or, you know, perhaps just say what they were thinking, rather than sit there and say nothing, something along the lines of, you know, why would religion matter more than ethnicity would.

What would you have asked, John, if you were sitting there as a sports reporter?

STONESTREET: I mean, I have lots of basketball related questions, and I'm apparently not nearly as clever as Joe Mazzulla is. I have loved this. This isn't even, by the way, my favorite response of his in one of these press conferences, because he was asked earlier in the year about the royal family visiting one of the games. Did you see that clip? And he said, What do you mean, Mary, mother, Mary, Joseph and Jesus? And it was like, you know it was, I guess it was, you know, William and Megan or, sorry, which one was it? It was the, I should know this.

EICHER: It was Harry.

STONESTREET: Harry. There we go. Harry and Meghan and it I just thought that was great. He is hilarious, first of all, and I love the just the levity and the confidence that he exudes, you know, in his faith, you know, you hear these answers that just basically change the perspective. You said it “unravels the narrative.” I think that's a legitimate way to say it as well, because he's just thinking about these questions. And he's really good at his job, you know, he he really is a spectacular coach, taking a lot of young talent and delivering and molding and meshing it with some older talent, and then delivering a product that's pretty impressive. So I just love that.

I just love when I see that in areas that are unexpected. I love that there has been a shift in sports and in coaching at this high level. In my mind, from kind of the Bobby Knight approach of the 70s, maybe 80s, and even, you know, other but to this kind of, you know, Dabo, you know, the Clemson football coach, or, you know, the Virginia University of Virginia basketball coach is another example of this. And certainly the coaches at Baylor University who are all doing this at a really, really high level, and then just kind of basically saying, Oh, yeah. And this, this is, you know, what I believe and and just doing it in a way that I think is making these reporters better at their job.

So, you know, I don't know what I would have asked, but I hope I would have asked the same thing, because I want these same clever answers to get out in the public square. So maybe I would try to throw these softballs and let them knock him out of the park. It's just really fascinating.

BROWN: Let's stay with that unraveling the narrative theme there, because this month is, there's certainly a narrative around the month of June, but Fidelity Month logos are are popping up on social media, and the goal is to unite people of different faith and cultural backgrounds who wish to reaffirm or rededicate themselves to fidelity, to God, our spouses, and families, countries and communities, to Make America Faithful Again. John, it's certainly noble, but in this cultural moment, is it enough?

STONESTREET: Well, no, we always require the help of the Lord and the Holy Spirit. But I love this idea. I've loved this idea since last year when Professor Robert George at Princeton first proposed it. I think it's a way of communicating what's really important, and also not just saying pride is bad, which, by the way, pride is bad, there's never been an example in history of pride being good, until this movement adopts it and pushes it forward.

But faithfulness, man, that is the source of the great stories of history, the great battles that have been won, the beauty of friendships and family that we experience, the beauty of lifelong married love and a spouse walking another one all the way up to their last breath, a parent dealing with a problem child but not giving up. I mean, I mean, just think of the beauty of that. Fidelity is beautiful, and this is what is so compelling about this. And look, I've seen more this year than last year, of fidelity, so praise God.

You know, what else? I've seen less pride this year than last year. Now, for some reason, even though Target backed down after getting, you know, smacked around, and the bottom line for promoting Satanism last year, Walmart decided to double down on this. This makes no sense to me. But you know what? Less since we were talking about professional sports, less professional sports teams are jumping in on this, and maybe we should thank those Russian hockey players that had the courage at the very beginning to say no, you know, but I like the fact that we say no, but we also say yes, and that, of course, is the truth of the Christian worldview, that whenever Christians say no to the world, it's because they're pointing to something better. Chuck Colson, in his last speech, said Christians don't impose a way. They propose a better way. And I think that is what Robbie George, Professor George, has done in this. I just, I love it. It's on my social media, even though I'm not, but that is, and I think it's something that we can all get behind. So go to fidelitymonth.com I'm not getting paid to promote this. I just think this is a great idea.

BROWN: Well, I can't let you two go without saying, Happy Father's Day? Father's Day is on Sunday. But also, there's a---you're welcome---there's a question around this.

So here's a dad being a dad. I saw this video. It's gotten 14 million views. Here's this kid. He's squealing. He's screaming at the top of his lungs, sitting in a barber's chair being recorded as his dad shaves off his long locks, dreadlocks.

This is not just a haircut. This is the dad punishing the son because the son bullied another kid at school that has cancer. Lots of opinions about this. You know, this is humiliating, this is bullying. And then others say, well, the hair will grow back, the lessons like this will last a lifetime.

So we know how important it is to have a father present in the home. I just wonder, though, John, are debates like this in the public square helpful to anyone? Also, should this be on social media?

STONESTREET: Oh, I mean, there's so many things on social media that shouldn't. I'm a huge fan of this one. And you know, the fundamental failure of our age is adults not willing to do hard things on behalf of children.

So look, I, you know, I didn't make the call to parent. I don't know the backstory of what this young man did, or how far down the line he is in this dehumanizing behavior. But I've just, even in the last month, dealt with a group of adults not willing to do hard things for the sake of kids. So at this point, I'm probably biased, but high five to this dad, and high five to all dads, because you know what? You just said, we know how important it is to have a father present in the home. We do, but the rest of the world doesn't or is rejecting what they know is probably more accurate.

There's nothing more important than kids grow up in a home with married mom and dad, and to somehow act like that doesn't matter. To somehow act like, you know, tethering this kid's well-being to his own feelings is more important than to what's true and right, and no one can do that better than a dad. Man, fist bump, high five. Elbow bump. I'm across the board in support of this dad.

EICHER: Hey, across the board, all that to you. Happy Father's Day to you, John. John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center and Host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Great to have you. Thanks!

STONESTREET: Happy Father's Day to you and thank you both!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, June 14th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: We turn to a much anticipated sequel from Pixar that has some fans excited and others worried.

Here’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino on Inside Out 2.

MUSIC: [Life’s Incredible Again - The Incredibles Soundtrack]

COLLIN GARBARINO: Remember when Pixar was the gold standard for animation? For twenty years the studio pumped out hit after hit that managed to appeal to both kids and adults. The movies were smart and heartfelt with stories that tended to cut against the grain. Movies like The Incredibles, WALL-E, and Up—classics—and let’s not forget Toy Story, the movie that started it all.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about heading down to the theater to catch a new Pixar movie. The studio’s quality has noticeably deteriorated, and in the last five years, filmmakers have started slipping LGBT elements into their movies.

All that to say, despite having enjoyed the original Inside Out in 2015, my enthusiasm for seeing Inside Out 2 was pretty low.

JOY: Behold! My super high-tech Riley protection system. [sproing] Don’t look, it’s fine.

But I’m happy to report that the movie was actually pretty good. And it’s a worthy sequel to the original.

MUSIC: [Bundle of Joy - Inside Out soundtrack]

Inside Out 2 picks up with Riley Anderson’s 13th birthday, and all of her emotions are living in harmony within her head. Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith are back as Joy and Sadness, along with the other core emotions, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. These emotions competently guide the young girl through her daily ups and downs.

But then puberty hits, and everything changes.

JOY: Orange? Who made the console orange?

ANXIETY: Hello, everybody!

SOUND: [All scream]

Riley’s emotional control center gets an extreme makeover, and some new folks move in.

ANXIETY: I’m sorry. I can get ahead of myself. I’m Anxiety. I’m one of Riley’s new emotions, and we are just super jazzed to be here. Where can I put my stuff.

DISGUST: What do you mean “we”?

Maya Hawke voices Anxiety, who leads the new crew of sophisticated emotions, comprising Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui.

ENNUI: It’s what you would call the boredom.

JOY: Well, come on up here, Ennwarr. Am I saying it right?

It doesn’t take long for the old emotions and the new emotions to disagree over what’s best for Riley. And Anxiety ends up hijacking Riley’s sense of self.

The original Inside Out was a sad movie. That’s not a knock against it. It was just melancholic. This sequel isn’t as sad as the first installment. But it also doesn’t have the same spark of originality. Some of the emotions seem like they have to learn the same lessons over again.

JOY: This is for all those memories that belong in the back of the mind.

The story retreads old themes, reminding us once again to avoid suppressing aspects of ourselves. But familiar messages somehow feel appropriate for a movie that transports viewers to that liminal state between childhood and adulthood. Like the original, this sequel will resonate more with parents than children. But don’t worry, the movie contains enough zany antics to keep the kids entertained. They just won’t experience the rich moments of self awareness the movie so ably imparts to those of us who’ve already grown up. And those of us who’ve watched our children endure these growing pains will feel those moments more keenly.

ANXIETY: We all have a job to do. You make Riley happy. Sadness makes her sad. Fear protects her from the scary stuff she can see. And my job is to protect her from the scary stuff she can’t see. I plan for the future.

I won’t say that Inside Out 2 offers deep insight into the human psyche. I had a few quibbles with the mechanics of Riley’s mind. But to be fair, I’ve often struggled to understand the inner workings of my two teenage daughters’ minds.

ANXIETY: Riley’s life is more complex now. It requires more sophisticated emotions than all of you. You just aren’t what she needs anymore, Joy.

Inside Out 2 is rated PG, and it avoids some of the missteps we’ve lately seen from Disney and Pixar. Thankfully it doesn’t contain any references to LGBT issues. And even though the movie depicts a girl on the cusp of puberty grappling with her emotions it wisely avoids all the aspects of puberty that might prompt uncomfortable questions from small children.

But the movie has plenty of cringe-inducing scenes as Riley experiences embarrassing moments brought on by her desire to fit in with her peers. Both the desire and the embarrassment will feel familiar to anyone who’s been a teenager.

FEAR: What is that?!

WORKER: It’s a sarchasm! It can open for miles! Run for your lives!

With Inside Out 2, Pixar returns to solid storytelling and offers some refreshing honesty about the human condition. It’s so easy to go through life thinking we’re good, but how good are we really? The movie culminates in a moment of grace which includes confession and forgiveness.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, June 14th, 2024. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Up next: Word Play for the month of June. Well, this is providential timing. Our all-new WORLD Magazine for July is now online and getting printed as we speak. If you’re a subscriber it’ll be in your home in a few weeks, but certainly before July 1st. And, really, if you’re not, you should be. The cover story’s by Myrna Brown this month. All the more reason to subscribe.

But we’ve added a cool new feature: a monthly crossword puzzle. And so that’s what I mean by providential timing, because here now is George Grant to tell us about the history of the crossword which didn’t start out that way. Listen:

GEORGE GRANT: On the eve of the First World War, Arthur Wynne, an editor at the New York World, introduced a new game for the newspaper’s weekly entertainment section. He created a blank word search grid with a series of clues and called it the Word Cross Puzzle. A typographical error in the composition room transposed the title to “crossword.” Wynne liked the sound of the mistake and decided to keep it.

Almost immediately, a host of subscribers to the paper became cruciverbalists. In other words, crossword fans. They saw the puzzle as a welcome diversion from the stress of increasingly troubled times. During the war years, and into the 1920s, the popularity of crossword puzzles boomed, with newspapers and magazines all across the English-speaking world copying Wynne’s basic concept. The “crossword craze” became a cultural institution, spawning contests, amateur and professional leagues, penny dreadful paperbacks, and even a hit song: “Crossword Mama, you puzzle me, but Papa’s gonna figure you out.”

In 1924, Richard Simon convinced his publishing partner Lincoln Schuster to print a collection of crosswords for Simon’s puzzle-loving aunt. Concerned by the book’s decidedly non-literary character, the partners went to print without the firm’s name on or in the volume. The small print run of 3,600 copies was an immediate success, prompting multiple new editions, eventually selling more than 100,000 copies.

Variations of the crossword concept abounded. In 1925, editors at the Saturday Westminster Gazette introduced Cryptic Crosswords, in which each clue is a word puzzle in itself. Then in 1938, the New York architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the Criss-Cross Words puzzle—a board game combining elements of anagrams and crosswords.It was a variation of an earlier word game he’d invented called Lexico. Unable to sell the idea to major game manufacturers, Butts produced a few sets himself, but a decade later, James Brunot redesigned the board, simplified the rules, and renamed the game Scrabble. Then came Sudoku, Nonograms, Griddlers, and Wordle.

For decades, the only major newspaper without a crossword feature was The New York Times. Over the years, they printed several editorials ridiculing the concept as “frivolous,” a “primitive sort of mental exercise.” But two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, The Gray Lady changed her tune, seeing the puzzles as a needful distraction from the worries of war. Crosswords have been in the Times ever since.

The musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim quipped, “The nice thing about doing a crossword is you know there’s a solution.”

Now, what’s another word for thesaurus?

I’m George Grant.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, now it’s time to thank the team who helped to put the program together this week:

Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Emma Perley, Lindsay Mast, Jerry Bowyer, Todd Vician, Brad Littlejohn, Leo Briceno, Onize Ohikere, Jen Curtis, Janie B. Cheaney, Mary Muncy, Jenny Lind Schmitt, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, Collin Garbarino, and George Grant.

And a new voice on the program this week: World Journalism Institute college graduate Josephine Lee.

Special thanks to our breaking news team: Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Travis Kircher, Lauren Canterberry, Christina Grube, and Josh Schumacher.

And the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Our producer is Harrison Watters.

Our Senior producer is Kristen Flavin and Paul Butler is Executive producer.

Additional production assistance from Benj Eicher and Bekah McCallum.

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The Psalmist writes in Psalm 133:1, “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.”

Indeed! So let’s worship with brothers and sisters in Christ in church this weekend, and Lord willing, we’ll meet you right back here on Monday.

Go now in grace and peace.

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