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Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and PBS host Jeffrey Goldberg joined former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast on Thursday to discuss The Atlantic’s ‘“The Unfinished Revolution,’ a project exploring 250 years of the American experiment.” According to Goldberg, the Trump era proves that America never did settle the question of king-like power. Couric put the ball on the tee by claiming the timing of the nation’s 250th birthday is interesting given her thoughts on Trump, “Well, I'd love to hear about this intersection of the present with the past, because obviously, Jeff, you acknowledge that the American experiment is under extraordinary pressure at the moment, and I'm curious about the very, you know, strange and fascinating timing of looking at this whole American idea and the American experiment at this moment in history right now that we're witnessing.”     While America may no longer have kings that wear fancy clothes, Goldberg lamented the issue is supposedly still up for debate: Yeah, well, like I said, it's like, and I'm sure you felt this. There are questions that we thought were settled. That just aren't settled. I mean, there are questions about the durability and effectiveness of the separation of powers that I think is really interesting right now, you know, we—they—the Founders of this country, you know, victorious off the Revolution, were obviously most afraid of tyranny, right? Having just freed themselves from a tyrannical king, they were like, 'How do we present—how do we prevent another king or that or a monarchical view of how we should be run.' How do we prevent that from happening? And so there's separation of powers. There’s an executive branch, a legislative branch, a judicial branch, and those things have worked to check each other's power for 250 years. Obviously there've been crises. One would hope the party of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and never-ending COVID emergencies would have a moment of self-reflection before claiming Congressional Republicans are dishonoring the Founder’s intentions for Congress to check the executive. However, such introspection was not forthcoming from Goldberg, “We had a civil war, of course, where everything broke down. But it's more or less work and now we're in a moment when, oh, Congress, I mean, this is again, this is my view. It's not only my view, but my view, Congress is not fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities to check the power of the executive.” Not only that, Goldberg insisted, “The judicial branch is operating independently and has been in some ways manipulated by the executive branch.” Before anyone could ask, “What does ‘manipulated by the executive branch’ even mean?” Goldberg kept rolling: The executive branch is trying to seize as much power as possible. One of the most interesting questions, and again, we could discuss it at, you know, at length. One of the interesting questions that the executive branch is interested in accruing as much power for itself as possible right now, and the legislative branch, or the people who control the legislative branch, are interested in accruing for the executive branch as much power as possible. It doesn't make any sense. Like this, this system only works. The system that the Founders set up only works if everybody is checking each other's power. And so that's one, that's one subject that we wanted to try to understand. One imagines that the next time Democrats control the White House and Congress, liberals like Couric and Goldberg will not be demanding Democrats check the president. They will almost certainly be good team players imploring everyone to get in line. Here is a transcript for the October 9 show: Next Question with Katie Couric 10/9/2025 KATIE COURIC: Well, I'd love to hear about this intersection of the present with the past, because obviously, Jeff, you acknowledge that the American experiment is under extraordinary pressure at the moment, and I'm curious about the very, you know, strange and fascinating timing of looking at this whole American idea and the American experiment at this moment in history right now that we're witnessing. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Yeah, well, like I said, it's like, and I'm sure you felt this. There are questions that we thought were settled. That just aren't settled. I mean, there are questions about the durability and effectiveness of the separation of powers that I think is really interesting right now, you know, we—they—the Founders of this country, you know, victorious off the Revolution, were obviously most afraid of tyranny, right? Having just freed themselves from a tyrannical king, they were like, “How do we present—how do we prevent another king or that or a monarchical view of how we should be run.” How do we prevent that from happening? And so there's separation of powers. There’s an executive branch, a legislative branch, a judicial branch, and those things have worked to check each other's power for 250 years. Obviously there've been crises. We had a civil war, of course, where everything broke down. But it's more or less work and now we're in a moment when, oh, Congress, I mean, this is again, this is my view. It's not only my view, but my view, Congress is not fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities to check the power of the executive. The judicial branch is operating independently and has been in some ways manipulated by the executive branch. The executive branch is trying to seize as much power as possible. One of the most interesting questions, and again, we could discuss it at, you know, at length. One of the interesting questions that the executive branch is interested in accruing as much power for itself as possible right now, and the legislative branch, or the people who control the legislative branch, are interested in accruing for the executive branch as much power as possible. It doesn't make any sense. Like this, this system only works. The system that the Founders set up only works if everybody is checking each other's power. And so that's one, that's one subject that we wanted to try to understand.

A “gigantic mental health catastrophe" began in 2012, and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes that overprotecting children in the real world — by not letting them out to play and develop independence — and under-protecting them online is to blame.Especially now that around every corner is an app fighting for your child’s attention.“We have all kinds of documents, leaks, docu reports that came out in lawsuits where we hear them talking about all the harm they’re causing and all the things they’re doing to cause addiction. These platforms are designed to grab our kids' attention and never let go because if they let go, it’s going to go to their competitor,” Haidt tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”“So I think now that the case is pretty much closed, the argument that ‘Oh well, we just don’t know, we need to gather more information,’ you know, that was the tobacco industry playbook decades ago,” he explains.Haidt calls it an “evil industry,” with TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat “harming children at an industrial scale.”“We’re not just talking like a few hundred kids. We’re talking literally tens of millions are harmed and thousands are dead. So I do think that this is having a very pernicious effect on society, on children,” he says.And it’s not only affecting their attention spans.“They need to make lots of mistakes and learn from them. And then especially during puberty ... when the brain is changing very, very fast. It’s rewiring from the child to the adult form. And so if in puberty, kids are not out there having adventures and flirting and getting embarrassed and getting in arguments ... if they’re not out there having real world experience, it’s going to prevent the neurons from wiring up in a healthy adult way,” Haidt explains.“In terms of what they’re going to be like in 30 years, here’s what we can say with some confidence just because these are the way the trends are. They’re going to be more anxious and more fragile,” he continues.“We never let them grow thick skin. We never let them have those toughening experiences,” he adds.But that’s not the biggest issue these children will face.“The biggest one I think is the destruction of the human capacity to pay attention. Young people, they find it very difficult to pay attention to anything for more than 10 or 15 minutes. They find it difficult to watch movies,” Haidt says.“They find it difficult to read a book, and they’re reading much, much less. Can you imagine Western civilization if we lose books? If it’s all just TikTok?” he asks, noting that while attention span might be the most common, it will also affect demographics.“The frequency of sex and marriage was already falling with the Millennials. It’s falling much faster with Gen Z. Boys raised on porn who have very poor social skills and play a lot of video games and don’t have really much practice flirting,” Haidt tells Glenn.“And that’s just on the boy side. The girls especially are more anxious and fragile, which is also a bad sign for marriage,” he adds.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

With Beijing preparing to seize Taiwan and Washington bleeding resources in Ukraine, Americans are asking the question no one in the Pentagon wants to answer: Is the U.S. military ready for World War III? The truth is worse than most people realize.We’re not even close.America deserves a military led by warriors, not bureaucrats. The time for excuses is over.Under the last three Democratic presidents, the armed forces have been systematically weakened. Bill Clinton lowered physical fitness standards to shoehorn women into combat roles. Barack Obama elevated Marxist generals who smuggled diversity, equity, and inclusion into the ranks under the banner of “modernization.” Joe Biden went further, purging the unvaccinated, fixating on gender ideology and climate change, and leaving supply chains dangerously dependent on foreign — often Chinese — manufacturers.The result is a hollowed-out military that struggles to meet recruitment goals, maintain readiness, or inspire confidence. War Secretary Pete Hegseth has begun the long process of repair — firing the worst woke officers, reinstating real fitness standards, and banning DEI.But the rot runs deeper. Unless we reform the institutions that produce our officers, we’ll fail at the most important mission of all: restoring the warrior spirit.Academies in declineAs a West Point graduate, I know the academies’ first duty is to forge warrior-leaders. Everything else is secondary. Yet West Point Superintendent Steven Gilland has traded that mission for racial quotas and “whiteness” seminars that divide cadets and undermine cohesion. The dean even tried to install Biden’s “disinformation czar” as “distinguished chair” of the Social Studies Department — until the Trump administration intervened.The rot extends across all five service academies. At the Merchant Marine Academy, former Superintendent Joanna Nunan persecuted Christians and promoted transgender ideology until Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy fired her in June.Civilian faculty have made matters worse. At the Air Force Academy alone, nearly 200 professors push progressive politics in uniform. One mocked her students as “White Boy 1, 2, 3.” Another championed critical race theory and insisted America was “racist from the beginning.” This isn’t military education. It’s Berkeley activism in uniform. And it’s driving away the next generation of patriots.The Marxist march through the ranksROTC programs, which produce most of the Army’s officers, have followed the same Marxist path. Cadets can now major in grievance studies at universities like Wisconsin-Madison, then enter the officer corps unprepared for actual war-fighting. That’s not how you beat China.Postgraduate institutions such as the Naval and Army War Colleges, Air University, and the National Defense University have become bureaucratic echo chambers for climate activism and social justice rhetoric. Their accrediting agencies enforce DEI mandates and even filed briefs opposing the Supreme Court’s ruling against race-based admissions. Civilian faculty dominate the classrooms, feeding officers a steady diet of leftist ideology and contempt for the commander in chief.RELATED: Memo to Hegseth: Our military’s problem isn’t only fitness. It’s bad education. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesThis didn’t happen overnight. It’s the product of cultural Marxism’s “long march through the institutions,” a decades-long campaign to hollow out American strength from within. From boot camp to the War College, officers now absorb ideology instead of discipline. The price of that indoctrination will be paid in blood if war comes.Reclaiming the warrior ethosThe tide is beginning to turn. For the first time in decades, the left is on defense. President Trump has given the military a mandate to purge Marxism and restore its fighting spirit. Patriots across the country are watching — and acting.Through RestoreTheMilitary.com, we’ve outlined a blueprint to rebuild the force: Fire ideological officers, overhaul the National Defense Authorization Act, remove civilian faculty from service academies, ban DEI, reward war-fighters who risk their lives, and end our dependence on foreign supply chains.The message to Congress couldn’t be clearer: Do your duty — or step aside. America deserves a military led by warriors, not bureaucrats. The time for excuses is over.

Daderot/Wikimedia CommonsA statue of Girolamo Savonarola in Ferrara, Italy. Just the word Florence evokes a world of art, and power, and beauty. The Italian city was the cradle of the Renaissance, and hosted such masters as da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Botticelli. But one man saw all this wonder and wanted to watch it burn — Girolamo Savonarola. Hailed by some as a prophet — and others as a fanatic — the Dominican friar embraced extreme asceticism and encouraged the luxury-loving Florentines to burn their treasures in his infamous “Bonfire of the Vanities”. For a brief moment, Savonarola succeeded, temporarily turning the hedonistic city of Florence into a theocracy of his own making. But he drew the ire of the Catholic Church, and ultimately met a fiery end. Girolamo Savonarola’s Righteous Path To Florence Museo nazionale di San Marco A depiction of Girolamo Savonarola. Born on September 21, 1452, in Ferrara, Italy, Girolamo Savonarola came into a world seized by the rich, humanist ideas of the Renaissance. But Savonarola had little taste for them. By 1472, he had written an unfinished treatise entitled “On Contempt for the World.” By 1475, he had left his family home to enter the Dominican order at Bologna, and went on to teach Scripture. At one point, Savonarola wrote to his father condemning “the blind wickedness of the peoples of Italy.” Then, in 1482, Savonarola was sent to the Convent of San Marco in Florence, where he steadily drew attention for his fire-and-brimstone sermons. Girolamo Savonarola drew heavily from Revelations, spoke of a new, imminent Biblical flood, predicted the deaths of Lorenzo de Medici, the de facto leader of Florence, and Pope Innocent VIII, and warned that an invader would soon cross over the Alps and attack Italy. Public DomainFlorence in the 15th century. Some of his prophecies seemed to come true. Both Lorenzo de Medici and Pope Innocent VIII died in 1492. And in 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, prompting the remaining de Medicis to flee. Into this power vacuum stepped Girolamo Savonarola, who sought to transform Florence into a new Christian republic. The Attempt To Turn Florence Into A Christian Republic Though Savonarola never held political office, he held incredible sway over the people of Florence in the absence of the de Medici family. Some even welcomed the friar as he set out to turn Florence into a “New Jerusalem.” Indeed, some of Savonarola’s initiatives were positive for the city, as he set out to feed the hungry, curb unemployment, and lower taxes. Museum of San MarcoSome of Girolamo Savonarola’s initiatives were popular — and some were not. But many others watched with alarm as Savonarola used the Gospel to craft laws in Florence. Savonarola disliked jokes, poetry, and sex, denounced nude paintings and humanist ideas, and canceled the city’s popular carnivals and festivals. According to Smithsonian Magazine, his powerful sermons may have even driven Sandro Botticelli to burn some of his work (though fortunately not his famous “Birth of Venus”). In a dark foreshadowing of the Hitler Youth, Savonarola also organized poor young boys into a sort of informal army. The youths were tasked with marching around Florence, keeping an eye out for any rule-breaking. But Savonarola’s most infamous moment came on Feb. 7, 1497, when he threw his infamous “Bonfire of the Vanities”. In the Piazza del Signoria, Savonarola had a great pyre erected as his loyal youths went door to door, demanding that Florentines give up objects of “vice.” One remembered that the boys took “lascivious pictures… women’s hats, mirrors, wigs, dolls, perfumes, pictures in intarsia, sculptures, cupids, playing cards, dice boards, chess pieces, lutes and other musical instruments, books of diverse poets…” These items were thrown onto the pyre — and set on fire. “With the greatest of happiness,” one witness remembered, “they burned everything.” Houghton Library, Harvard University/Wikimedia CommonsA depiction of a Savonarola sermon. Flames crackled over games and mirrors, books and statutes, leaving smoke climbing high above the Duomo. But a powerful group had grown increasingly unhappy with Girolamo Savonarola: Pope Alexander VI and the Catholic Church. And Savonarola’s influence would soon fade like the smoke over Florence. The Gruesome Execution Of Girolamo Savonarola As Girolamo Savonarola consolidated power, Church leaders attempted to bring him to heel. They disliked his denunciations of luxury in the Church, and sought to silence him. At first, they attempted to do so by buying Savonarola’s loyalty. But when Pope Alexander VI tried to bribe him by making him a cardinal, Savonarola refused outright. “A red hat?” he purportedly replied. “I want a hat of blood.” Public DomainPope Alexander VI, who ordered the excommunication and arrest of Girolamo Savonarola. When Savonarola declared that he was a messenger from God, he sealed his fate. Alexander VI could no longer stand aside. He had the friar excommunicated and, in April 1498, Savonarola was arrested. Brutally tortured on the rack, Savonarola confessed — then recanted. But he was nevertheless sentenced to death alongside two of his most loyal followers. The three men were condemned to be hanged over a raging fire. “We shall have a fine bonfire,” a papal commissioner, who’d come for the execution, remarked, “for I have the sentence of condemnation with me.” On May 23, 1498, a large crowd gathered in Piazza della Signoria, where Savonarola had held his “Bonfire of the Vanities.” As a bishop stripped Savonarola and his companions of their religious frocks, he told Savonarola “I separate thee from the church militant and from the church triumphant,” to which the friar replied, “That is beyond your power.” A priest standing nearby purportedly asked Savonarola how he felt as he stood on the edge of death. Savonarola allegedly responded with his last words: “The Lord has suffered as much for me.” Museo di San Marco/Wikimedia CommonsA painting of Savonarola’s death and burning. He was forced to watch the deaths of his two companions. Then, Savonarola was hanged as the fire burned beneath his feet. As he burned, someone in the crowd shouted “If you can work miracles, work one now!” and, to the horror of the crowd, Savonarola’s hand jerked up, as if in blessing. It was just an involuntary reaction triggered by the flames. But it caused mass panic, and the crowd stampeded out of the square in terror. In the aftermath of the friar’s gruesome death, some continued to admire Girolamo Savonarola. Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote warmly of Savonarola (though he critiqued him as well). But ultimately, Savonarola was not remembered as a savior or a saint. Rather, he’s best known as the man who’d have burned the best of Florence in the pursuit of his better angels. After learning about Girolamo Savonarola, the friar who tried to make Florence into a Christian republic, go inside the life and death of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI who tried to remake Europe. Or, discover the grisly stories behind some of the worst torture devices of the Middle Ages. 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