The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege
Damon Linker, . . Doubleday, $26 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-385-51647-1
Conventional wisdom on the left holds that conservatives bring up issues ranging from abortion and gay rights to the teaching of evolution primarily as a cynical ploy to activate their political base, but Linker challenges that notion by detailing the inner workings of the "theoconservative" movement. He describes it as a group of mostly Catholic intellectuals who view American society in sometimes apocalyptic terms, whose absolute and uncompromising moral framework for law—their ultimate goal is "the end of secular politics"—holds great sway in Republican circles. Primarily and almost obsessively concerned with Richard John Neuhaus and his journal
Reviewed on: 06/12/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 304 pages - 978-0-385-52004-1
Paperback - 304 pages - 978-1-4000-9685-5