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March 4, 2026

Religion, Civic Virtue, and the American Crisis

Science is confirming forgotten truths.

Anyone who closely examines the rising tide of anti-Semitism in America today, including in the form of deranged commentary on the U.S.-Israel relationship, will notice that it is inseparable from a general degradation of public life and political discourse. To Jonathan Emerson-Pierce, the best way to describe the underlying problem is to use the old-fashioned-seeming term civic virtue, which is something in very short supply:

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