Wednesday, May 6, 2026
5/6/202626 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the Trump Administration’s investigation into Smith College for admitting biological males, the moral revolution’s influence on foreign policy, and new technology that supposedly proves you are human online.
Part I (00:13 – 11:07)
The Trump Administration Investigates Smith College on Title IX Breach: If You Admit Biological Male Bodies, Guess What? You are No Longer a Women’s College
- Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women by The Guardian (Rachel Leingang)
Part II (11:07 – 15:18)
Canada Moves Toward Europe and Europe Keeps the Moral Revolution at Full Speed—Big Lessons Go Deeper Than Foreign Policy
- Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump by The New York Times (Matina Stevis-Gridneff)
Part III (15:18 – 18:51)
The LGBTQ Revolution Marks European Milestones: The Moral Revolution Continues to Cause Historic Shifts in Global Scene
- Are you human? New tool aims to help prove you’re not A.I. by USA Today (Jennifer Jolly)
Part IV (18:51 – 26:27)
Look into The Orb? Mark of the Beast? New Technologies Supposedly Prove You Are Human Online. What’s Next?
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[upbeat music] It's Wednesday, May 6th, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Some issues are now landing in the headlines in such a way that you simply have to pause for a moment and say, "Can this actually be about what it says it's about?" Okay, so the Trump administration, through the Department of Education, has now taken action against one of the most historic women's colleges in the United States. We're talking about Smith College. Smith College, one of the Seven Sisters in terms of the historic women's colleges, as women-only colleges in the United States. It goes back to 1871 and a bequest from Sophia Smith. And, uh, the reason why this was important is because during this period in the, the last half of the 19th century, educational collegiate opportunities for women were rare, and so the idea was that there would be the establishment of these women's colleges. They also played into some very different cultural and historical developments, and one of them was the rise of feminism. So, and not by accident, uh, these colleges, especially in the 20th century, become pretty historic, uh, for their social liberalism and for their, their feminism. All right, so the Seven Sisters, these seven schools, what are they? Well, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, uh, that's now a part of Harvard University, Smith, Vassar, Vassar's now gone coed, and Wellesley.