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In the Cold War, I was pro-American. The world needed a counter-weight to the evils of expansionist, imperial communism.

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A constitutional republic dedicated before everything to the protection of liberty cannot legalize torture and remain a constitutional republic. It imports into itself a tumor of pure tyranny.

In terms of our liberal democracy and constitutional order, Trump is an extinction-level event. It’s long past time we started treating him as such.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

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