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Maundy Thursday has much to say both about the location of human flourishing and the role violence might play in it.

Nations great and small largely determine their own destiny under the mercy or judgment of an ever watchful Providence.

But it’s important for the souls of democracies that, even as they must make nasty accommodations in pursuit of a wider good, that they fully admit to themselves this reality, without self-delusion.

On living left of boom and moving to contact; responding to the Holocaust, the problem of evil, and human freedom; and “Once an Eagle” and a objects of love