September 19, 2014
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Intolerant Of Needless Suffering

The higher calling — the longer calling — is not to an election, nor is it to a party. It is to a vision of a community intolerant of needless suffering.– Don Berwick

My Republican friend is taking comfort that the center-right in Sweden might not have been smashed in the recent election. That its savior may be an anti-immigrant neo-nationalist party is not, for me, much comfort. These days, one hears such awful echoes.