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By October 2020, Tucker Carlson of Fox News was sounding this message, declaring, "At some point we are all going to die. Dying is the central fact of life," and suggesting that was reason enough to pull back all public health measures.

Now, almost a decade later, Republican hostility toward mainstream news media is treated as a fact of life.

So it's a little bit mind-boggling that the same guy who shrugs off school shootings as "a fact of life" and justifies the decimation of aid organizations by musing, "How did America get to the point where we’re sending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars abroad to NGOs that are dedicated to spreading atheism all over the globe?"

Cyberattacks are a fact of life for organizations worldwide, whether straightforward cybercrime or politically motivated.

Elie’s cast of characters — an eclectic list that includes Andy Warhol, Sinéad O’Connor, Bob Dylan, Bono, Czeslaw Milosz, Martin Scorsese and Robert Mapplethorpe — were, to varying degrees, children of the church who had internalized its tenets at a time when religion was still a central fact of life in America and Europe in the ’50s and ’60s.