When citizens insist on shaping the basic terms of social life by appealing to premises that others cannot reasonably be expected to accept—revelation, doctrines of transcendence, private moral visions—the result is not a purer politics but a dangerously brittle one.
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Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
This theology leaves little room for the restraint that characterized earlier security doctrines.
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