Mainline Protestantism didn’t secularize itself via the Social Gospel and become weaker as a religion; it became a new religion—and a powerful one, too.

Today’s secular liberals are the direct descendants of the past century’s Puritans and Protestants, deeply concerned with matters of sin and salvation in the church of politics.

American prosperity and security are linked to the ability of financial markets to stimulate invention and innovation.

Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.