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Subscribe NowLast week, during a visit to Athens, Marco Rubio gave a rousing speech—with the Acropolis in the background—on the heritage and future of Western civilization. Wilfred McClay praises the address, while calling the secretary of state to task for omitting the other source of the Western tradition:
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