Imagine that I am running for public office—say, president of the United States—and I claim to be a “committed secular progressive.”
You say, “But Professor George, you're no such thing. You're not secular—you’re Catholic; you're not progressive—you’re conservative.”
I reply, “Hey, but I was educated by secular progressives. I went to Swarthmore, then Harvard, then Oxford: All secular institutions dominated by progressives. I teach at Princeton—super secular and progressive. I learned the secular progressive catechism. I know it by heart. I can quote it to you verbatim. My secular progressive teachers largely shaped who I am. I'm grateful to them every day for the fine education they provided. That's part of my life, man.
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