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This book. It is excellence distilled and captured on page. It is Christianity at work in someone’s life — not the Christianity of the media or of politics — but the gospel lived out though words and deeds.

“The older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly, and never entirely, but somehow I fear we own all the world’s hurts together.”

I wish we all thought like this. That we all cared so deeply about others that we felt this in our hearts.

I don’t know how else to say it - but this book? This is a book. In comparison to the proliferation of “books” - pieces of paper thrown into binding, with a mixture of words and sentences and pretences of plot - this is a cool spring in a calm and luscious wood.

Just finished Sulla. Punishing enemies brutally, focusing on “draining the swamp,” rewarding those who serve him and he’s close with with prime real estate deals… none of this is surprising and there are tyrants in every age. It feels like a good time to remember that. All people come to an end and all regimes with them. It’s how we handle the meantime that matters - ensuring true justice is accomplished.

“Nothing, in our aggressive postmodern age, could be more of a turnoff than the classical.” - in reference to the positive ideals of the Roman republic like active citizenship (an inspiration to Jefferson). Notes that Mussolini was the last leader to be inspired by Rome, due to the appeal to fascists of the brutality of the Roman Empire. I wonder if this holds true in 2026.