In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I ran into a couple of almost comical passages in the current Atlantic piece by David Brooks that I linked yesterday. He disparages the intellectual Catholics and the Orthodox Jews who have been studying Hobbes and de Tocqueville at the various young conservative fellowship programs that stretch along Acela-land. (It should be just "Toqueville, not "de Toqueville", by the way, unless you have "Alexis" in front of it. There. That's off my chest.) Later, he says, Evangelical Christianity has lost many millions of believers across recent decades. Secularism is surging, and white Christianity is shrinking into a rump presence in American life. America is becoming more religiously diverse every day. Christians are in no position to impose their values—regarding same-sex marriage or anything else—on the public square. Self-aware Christians know this. The first observation to be made here is that Brooks is at best fuzzy on Christian taxonomy and isn...