Ben Sasse on facing his imminent death from pancreatic cancer: "Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived." I’ve followed Ben Sasse’s career with curiosity as he represents one of the most prominent public figures to collide the worlds of U.S. evangelical Christian public witness and secular higher education. He was an on-again-off-again college professor (PhD historian by training) who served as a GOP senator and had a brief but tumultuous stint as the president of the University of Florida (obligatory “booo!!” as a FSU graduate). I’ve spent a significan... nic.babarskis.blog

@JudsonGreene Yeah, I think there has been an ongoing dialogue in the media I pay attention too about what it means to do politics “right” in our fractured/polarized society and my perception has been that Sasse’s public persona is not defined primarily as someone constantly dunking on his partisan opponents.

@thebigbabooski Good article and interesting interview (got about half way through and realized I should prolly listen to it): “that we treated disagreement as a beginning rather than an ending.” I think one of the points Klein makes nicely in the intro is that the “other” needs to be simplified to be vilified. Just really hard to want to destroy a complicated being.