The word "legitimacy" is often offered as an answer, but I find it unconvincing.
At the core of the play is the parable of the ring that Nathan offers as an answer to the question of which of the three religions is the true one.
He offers as an answer a raid by several dozen undercover troops disguised as Palestinians on the city's al Ahli hospital the day before to arrest a man wanted for an attack on a settler, one of whose cousins was killed during the raid.
What Trump offered as an answer to the aching aloneness of Americans was nationalism, the exchange of an imagined community for actual ones, the promise of a mystic bond with people you'll never meet even while the ones you know and love are deported, abandoned, dying.
Also, Tom Burr's incredibly moving reading of Zoe Leonard's poem, "I Want A President," which he offered as an answer to the question of what it means to be human.
Why prophecy died out in Israel is difficult to determine, but Zechariah offers as good an answer as any in saying that the prophets "in those days" told lies.
Klobuchar also shares a story that has become Class of '85 lore the time she offered "foreseeability" as an answer in Professor Richard Epstein's torts class without knowing that it was a legal theory Epstein, now the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law, disliked.
Fard offered Islam as an answer to racial oppression at a time when eugenics was seen as legitimate science.
"Marco Rubio just admitted that: 'We're not going to fix America with senators and congressmen,' because 'presidents set the public policy agenda.' He offered this up as an answer to why he is blowing off so many votes in the Senate, even though he's being paid over $170,000 a year to represent the citizens of Florida.
For those with a family history of the disease, like a woman whose mother had breast cancer or a man whose father had prostate cancer, the physician offers as a facile answer, "heredity".
Morocco's decision — in the form of a referendum to give more powers to elected leaders — was offered as a unique answer to the insistent calls for democratic change that have swept through Arab countries since Tunisians unexpectedly toppled their longtime dictator in January.
