DAMON LINKER

"The Idolatry of America," The New Republic, April 23, 2008
Why politicized Christianity is bad for politics--and Christianity

"Atheism's Wrong Turn," The New Republic, December 10, 2007
The illiberalism of the "New Atheists"

"Sex and the Conservative Mind," The New Republic Online, June 28, 2007
Conservatives' misplaced ideas about sex

"Richard Rorty's Blasé Liberalism," The New Republic Online, June 12, 2007
Thoughts on the death of Richard Rorty

"Conversion Story," New York Times Book Review, January 31, 2006
A review of Garry Wills's What Paul Meant

"The Big Test," The New Republic, January 1-15, 2007
Possible political implications of Mormon theological commitments.

"Cross Purposes," The New Republic,
November 13, 2006
Pope Benedict's war on secular politics

"A Bigger Tent," Slate, October 11, 2006
Why religious conservatives are ready for a Mormon president

"The Philosopher and Everyone Else," The New Republic, July 31, 2006
A critical treatment of the controversial ideas and legacy of Leo Strauss

"Without A Doubt," The New Republic, April 3, 2006
These are happy days for religion in politics. In the age of George W. Bush, religion is moving back into the public square, exactly the way "Father Richard," as Bush fondly calls him, hoped it would. Richard John Neuhaus insists that secular democracy is a contradiction in terms and that America is essentially a Christian (and even Catholic) country. Imagine Cardinal Newman joining up with Karl Rove. In his new book, CATHOLIC MATTERS, Neuhaus offers a full account of his theo-conservatism, his vision of the Christianizing of America. A critical examination of a religious radical.