Political Fundamentals
8th September 2007
Read it. As with most everything in the NYT, both this review and the book it is nominally about, Hannah Rosin’s God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America about Patrick Henry College, deals with Christianity the way Margaret Mead dealt with the Samoans.
One could just as easily titled the book and/or the review Down the Alimentary Canal With Gun and Camera. Obviously Nina Easton and Hannah Rosin have heard about Christians but don’t really know any, other than superficially. Rosin at least makes an attempt, but it’s clear that neither of them can get beyond the clichés that were drilled into them in school and reinforced by the narrow prog circles in which they move. A pity.
These are the enemy, folks. They don’t know anything, and they don’t want to learn anything.