But families, even if only the married couple, are not just close friends. In the family, we feel we are near to the deepest mysteries of life and death.
—Putting Liberalism in Its Place

Eh, you guys already know what I’ll say about these lines: Given how elegiac the literature of friendship actually is, I don’t think Kahn’s attempt to exclude friendship from the life-or-death domain of familial love really works.