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He who rejects liberty has no faith in human nature.

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Where Reality Sells
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Conflicts Perplexing Prominent Politicians
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Regnat Tyrannis
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Catnip for Arrogant Politicians
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Exemplary Rejections
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Not Now
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Too Ignorant to Lead
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The Age of Octogenarians
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Unexpected Analogy
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Skepticism in Order
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A Deplorable Christmas
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Congress’s King
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The Whys Behind the Whats
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Once the most potent moral figure in Western culture was Jesus Christ. Believer or unbeliever, you took your ethical bearings from him, or professed to. To question his morals was to expose yourself as a monster. Now, the most potent moral figure in Western culture is Adolf Hitler. It is as monstrous to praise him as it would once have been to disparage Jesus. He has become the fixed reference point by which we define evil.
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (November 2019). See also “The End of the Age of Hitler,” First Things, November 2024.

— Alec Ryrie