640: Doubt That Douthat Edition

In this week’s episode, Texas Presumes its students can count up to ten, we learn about a gold scam involving Donald Trump's bullion heir, and we’ll find yet another downside of literacy.
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Vatican Library to Restore and Digitise Over 80,000 Manuscripts: catholicnews.in/vatican-library-to-restore-and…
Trump thinks the gold is missing from Fort Knox: nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/27/us/trump-fo…