In Honor of Ben Sasse
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Ben Sasse is dying in public, and knows that he has very limited time remaining on this earth. He sees it coming, and is looking straight at it. And so we can see his faith, his courage, and his wisdom. It is on display for us, and it is obviously the real thing. Christ is there.
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| 0:00.0 | In honor of Ben Sasse, May 4th, 2026. |
| 0:10.0 | Introduction. |
| 0:12.0 | So this is a post that requires a little bit of background. |
| 0:15.0 | Not too much, but some. |
| 0:16.0 | If you bear with me, I should be making good sense by the end. |
| 0:19.0 | The grand theme is this. In Augustine's |
| 0:21.5 | great book, the City of God, he said that in this world of ours, the dead are replaced by the dying. |
| 0:26.8 | And Charles de Gaulle once said that graveyards are full of indispensable men. All of us have an |
| 0:31.3 | appointed hour, and the astonishing thing is how surprised we are by the arrival of an event |
| 0:35.8 | that happens to absolutely everyone. |
| 0:38.2 | Psalm 90, verse 12. The needed background. Here is the background. I first heard of Ben Sass after his first |
| 0:44.3 | election to the Senate in Nebraska. If you watch the two embedded videos, you will see that he has |
| 0:49.1 | an informed interest in Burke's little platoons and is all about several things that we are also |
| 0:53.7 | all about here in Moscow. |
| 0:55.0 | The first would be the contribution that a genuine approach to the liberal arts can offer to a civil society, |
| 1:00.0 | and the second is the screaming need for the revivifying of thick community. |
| 1:04.0 | My awareness of him was distant but appreciative. |
| 1:07.0 | We had an NSA student here from Nebraska who had some sort of connection. In the first video below, if you watch about 10 minutes after the 40-minute mark, |
| 1:14.6 | you can see why we would be really appreciative of his take on higher education. |
| 1:18.6 | The same goes for his views on thick analog community. |
| 1:22.6 | Then the presidential campaign of 2016 happened to us all. |
| 1:25.6 | And as I've written about before, I just flat didn't believe |
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