morality
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Unselfish Public Service?
As we get learn more about the indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, it’s worth remembering that virtue has long been one of the cardinal values of functioning democratic states. Almost three hundred years ago, the…
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Not with a bang but a whimper
Watching the Gohmerts and Nuneses seek to turn black into white and up into down, watching Robert Mueller stick fastidiously to his narrow and apparently legalistic conception of his duty when given the opportunity to…
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Why we should care: Primo Levi’s poem, from Survival in Auschwitz
You who live safeIn your warm houses,You who find on returning in the evening,Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud Who does not know peace Who…