ALFRED LORD TENNYSON NOTED, and I accept it—although not without certain reservations—that, “there lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.” It all sounds so intellectually correct. “Check your sources” is the mantra of the academy. And you should. Especially in the age of the Internet, nothing should automatically be accepted as true (even Snopes!). Truth seems to be increasingly elusive. In the first edition of my commentary
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