Weekly Cultural Update: Paper Drugs in Prisons; Public Muslim Prayer; The Catholic Church and Social Justice; Meta and Youtube Lawsuit

About this episode

The hosts discuss the alarming rise of synthetic drugs in prisons and the implications of public Muslim prayer in New York City.

The New Frontier of the Drug War: Hosts Sean McDowell and Scott Ray discuss a terrifying "quantum leap" in the drug trade where synthetic, lab-made drugs are being sprayed onto innocuous items like books and letters to be smuggled into prisons. Public Prayer and Religious Liberty: The hosts examine the implications of thousands of Muslims praying publicly in New York City, balancing the Judeo-Christian roots of religious freedom with the need to maintain the right to disagree with different w...

People in this episode

Host: Sean McDowell

Topics covered

• drug trade
• public prayer
• religious liberty
• social justice

Keywords

• synthetic drugs
• prisons
• Muslim prayer
• religious freedom
• social justice

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New York City

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