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Why America needs the virtues of humility

  • Written by Christopher Beem, Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Pennsylvania State University

In a recent speech full of allusions to Bible verses and Christian hymns at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Hillary Clinton focused on Christian humility. She acknowledged that

“Humility is not something you hear much about in politics.”

But, she said, it should be. Those who truly understand “the awesomeness of...

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