Damon Linker

Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel From Political Captivity By Charles Marsh (Oxford University Press, 243 pp., $25) READ MORE >>

Listening to what passes for cultural criticism on the right, one would think that the sexual revolution of the 1960s had been unambiguously bad for Americans. Abortion-on-demand, illegitimate children, unwed mothers, deadbeat dads, no-fault divorce, pornographic popular culture, emotionally barren Charlotte Simmons-style dorm-room hook-ups--the list of maladies social conservatives trace to the sexual revolution is long. It is also, for these same conservatives, deeply troubling, because the benefits of that revolution have been so few. READ MORE >>

Richard Rorty, who died last Friday at the age of 75, was arguably the most influential American philosopher of the past 30 years. That is not to say, however, that he significantly influenced the ideas and intellectual habits of American professors of philosophy. On the contrary, Rorty, who taught comparative literature at Stanford University during the final decade of his life, was treated as a pariah by professional philosophers. And who could blame them? READ MORE >>

Jerry Falwell's friends and allies on the right tell us that he was a force for democracy in America. This is true. Thanks to Falwell, millions of conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants now actively participate in the political life of the nation, consistently mobilizing on the far-right side of the Republican Party. This makes Falwell historically important. But was he an admirable figure? Did he contribute to elevating the political culture of the United States? READ MORE >>

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