On Nukes and Circuses

Today we have taken a step back from another expensive, deadly conflict and toward transnational understanding. Instead of sharing some video of a medieval-minded woman who flouts the very system she has sworn an oath to protect, let's consider how this system and all its vaunted liberty was built on the very separation of governance from theocracy that we champion abroad, that we insist distinguishes us from the foreign lands we have cast as enemies.