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On Moral Passion and the Extremes of Protest
It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on Feb. 25 in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, to protest that country’s …