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Why Fasting Is Good for Democracy

Zealots at the Gate

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The Politics of Fasting

Ramadan is not designed to make you healthy and productive. The purpose of Ramadan is to connect you to God and to other people. keto doesn't care at all about your relationship to your neighbors, your family and the poor. And we can go back to that in terms of how we think about this on the broader level of American public debate and politics.

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