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A redemptive brotherhood is formed.

Amid the invasion of Iraq, when self-righteous stupidity was en vogue, neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Frum wrote "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror," a paean to redemptive violence as a cure for violence.

If Strauss, an unworldly academic lecturer, had no conceivable link with the neoconservative project to unleash redemptive war and exalt untrammeled executive power, why did two of his followers, neocon operatives Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt — who had both held government positions in foreign intelligence — write a 1999 essay crediting Strauss with having helped them conceptualize intelligence matters?

The redemptive power of music is be a recurring theme: Documentarian Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” uses Lego animation to chart the evolution of hitmaker Pharrell Williams, while British pop star Robbie Williams plays himself in the biographical drama “Better Man.”

Julian, who was afflicted with a terrible life-threatening illness at age 30, compared Christ's crucifixion to the experience of childbirth as both painful and redemptive, a mother's hardship contrasted with a father's obligation to defend his children with his body.