2026-04-09
1 小时 7 分钟I'm Dane Brugler.
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From New York Times' opinion, I'm Ross Douthat.
And this is Interesting Times.
If you knew when you were going to die.
When Ben Sass announced his diagnosis of stage four pancreatic cancer last December, he called it a death sentence.
But he noted that he'd had one before the cancer, too.
We all do.
Sass served the state of Nebraska and the U.S.
Senate for eight years as a high-minded and, by his own account, sometimes ineffectual conservative.
Then he quit politics to become president of the University of Florida, pursuing a different model of civic reform.
Now he's facing mortality.
For Sass, the advance of his cancer has brought clarity,
sharpening his focus on his wife and three children and the God whom he expects to shortly meet.