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Former Senator Ben Sasse, four months into a Stage four pancreatic cancer diagnosis, speaks now not of politics but of proximity — to God, to gratitude, to something larger than ambition. A drug called daraxonrasib has extended his horizon, and he says the digital revolution we are racing through may be costing us the very depth he has only now discovered.
That question of depth finds an unexpected echo in a quieter corner of the internet, where the blogger Scott Alexander reflects on why every well-meaning project to fix online argument — to map disagreement, to make debate more civil — seems to arrive with great hope and depart without lasting change. He suggests the problem may not be our tools, but something more stubborn in us.
And from the ancient world, a remarkable recovery. Scholars have retrieved long-lost pages from one of Christianity's earliest manuscripts — letters of the Apostle Paul — offering a window into how the first believers actually read and held Scripture. Not as monument, but as living conversation, passed between trembling hands.
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