Sasse details cancer battle in new interview: ‘Death is something we should hate’

Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) detailed his battle with cancer and reflected on his life during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times’s Ross Douthat. The conversation, released Thursday as part of Douthat’s “Interesting Times” podcast, took place less than four months after Sasse revealed his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis. “In mid-December I…