That’s the verse in which the righteous ask, When did we see you in prison?

Friends should not encumber friends with too-heavy burdens of righteousness; we might have to live up to them. But Jay has been writing about prisoners of despots for years. The outside world’s knowledge of their names is a (slight) brake on the malice and cruelty of those who hold them. It is especially necessary when their jailers have themselves assumed a mantle of righteousness, whether as revolutionary nationalists or religious zealots.

Well done, man.