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Welcome. My name is Dan Hugar, librarian and research associate at the Acton Institute.

Today I'm joined by Stephanie Slade.

Stephanie is senior editor at Reason Magazine and a fellow liberal studies at the Acton Institute.

Is politics a war of all against all? Should it be? Henry Adams back in the 19th century said politics was the systematic

organization of hatreds. How should Christians respond to the state of affairs? And is there a more

constructive and loving way forward? Stephanie, welcome to acting line and thank you for being with us.

Thanks so much for having me.

So you've been writing a lot about right-wing movements in the United States, particularly the sort of new right.

You've been writing about them in terms of policies and proposals and evaluating those from a sort of classical fusionist perspective.

But you've also been writing about sort of the tone and timing of this sort of movement.

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