John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist

“Back in the 1960s, it was axiomatic amongst the elite that religion was doomed. In ‘The Secular City’ (1965), Harvey Cox argued that Christianity had to come to terms with a secular culture. Now religion of the most basic sort is back with a vengeance. The president, his secretary of state, the House speaker and Senate majority leader are all evangelical Christians. Ted Haggard, the head of the 30 million-strong National Association of Evangelicals, jokes that the only disagreement between himself and the leader of the Western world is automotive: Mr. Bush drives a Ford pickup, whereas he prefers a Chevy.”

-John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge in an editorial for The Wall Street Journal. They co-authored “The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.”