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Barry Sussman: Garry Wills, a Faith-Based America, and the Press

Garry Wills, the cultural historian and longtime tracker of zealotry, lays out in the current New York Review of Books how America under George W. Bush, in a few short years, has become a country ruled by faith. “Bush promised his evangelical followers faith-based social services, which he called ‘compassionate conservatism,’” Wills writes. “He went [...]