Two conservative public servants facing the fight of their lives have shown us the best of American leadership.
Two remarkably talented, independent-minded, service-oriented conservatives are in knock-down, drag-out fights with cancer. They’ve been models of courage and good cheer in their battles, but they were also models of American republican virtue in their professional lives. Our nation must find ways to identify and elevate more people like them instead of the hot-tempered, partisan commentators who now dominate the public square yet never serve in public capacities.
Beyond their dire diagnoses in middle age (and willingness to discuss their struggles in public), Ben Sasse and Karl Zinsmeister share a great deal. Both had relatively brief but influential tenures at the …
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Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.
