Jeff Polet is director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.
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Only laughter can free us from the unforgiving rule of today’s judge-penitent.
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Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.
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Jerusalem, Athens, London, and Philadelphia made American civilization possible. Now five other symbolic cities threaten to be our downfall.
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