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Aired: March 30, 2020 • 27 minutes

Charles Krauthammer Chortles, ‘The Appeal of Ordeal,’ Part 3

In his tongue-in-cheek essay “The Appeal of Ordeal,” Charles Krauthammer takes us deep into his thinking about the “human propensity to test the worthiness of a thing by seeing how well it stands up to abuse.” Host Dennis Leap, with guest Deborah Leap, finish discussing the essay, commenting on Krauthammer’s view of the ordeal of survivorship and the ordeal of lessons learned.