This week, key underpinnings of the Western unconscious will reveal themselves in the observance of Passover and Good Friday - two rituals of sacrifice that have penetrated the American mind. Far from being an ancient irrelevance, the blood sacrifice that these occasions commemorate helps to define even secular culture - with profound consequences for how we, and our government, see the world.
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Why am I not surprised that Mr. Carroll's quiet meditation on our shared vernal imagery gets twisted by blinkered jingoistic minds into something out of the depths of the Tea Party? No, out of the depths of the era of John Birch, HUAC, and Joseph McCarthy.