The former senator announced last week that he has advanced cancer and does not expect to survive.
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Then-senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2020
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Just before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he’s going to die soon.
At one point, people talked about Sasse as a potential Republican presidential candidate. I always thought that he could have been the best civics teacher in the United States. His love of America is rooted in an understanding of the gift that our country is to the world and to individual human beings.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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Just before Christmas, Ben Sasse, who served as a United States senator from Nebraska between 2015 and 2023, announced that he has an advanced case of cancer and he’s going to die soon.
At one point, people talked about Sasse as a potential Republican presidential candidate. I always thought that he could have been the best civics teacher in the United States. His love of America is rooted in an understanding of the gift that our country is to the world and to individual human beings.
About the Author
Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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