It’s no secret that moral courage is the rarest of virtues. People acquiesce to malevolent bullies and baying mobs all the time, in fact, that mode of behaviour has pitifully become the norm in our time.

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I value the principles which became the hallmarks of Western democracy, made possible by the Age of Reason; religious tolerance (a wall between religion and state), a commitment to scientific inquiry,...