If Christ was the first time in history that gentile society took a dead Jew and turned him into an object of common veneration, stripping away every specifically Jewish attribute and imbuing him instead with a moral and spiritual mission to be shared by all of humanity, then the only other person who can realistically compare to Christ in this regard is Anne Frank. Does that make Anne Frank some kind of secularized or humanist analogue to Christ?

While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times. The times, however, are not particularly good: the U.S. military currently finds itself in a state of acute crisis, beset by a number of intractable problems that neither the political nor military leadership have been able to solve…