"The act of renouncing [the strain in American life that produced a man like Pete Hegseth] might require ... Americans to accept that they are not special but, in accordance with the most basic of religious principles, equal with the rest of the world before God."
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Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.
