Confronting Our Chaotic, Coercive Age - The American Spectator

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Confronting Our Chaotic, Coercive Age

How can we fight it? As Forster wrote, “It all turns on affection.”

by Shmuel Klatzkin

August 2, 2020, 12:03 AM

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