“It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.” —Mark Twain Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” aired every weekend on 600 NPR stations with 4 million…
The Follies of Document Fundamentalism
At Tea Party gatherings pocket Constitutions are handed out as eagerly as the Gideons distribute New Testaments on my campus every year. The message is clear: read God’s word and you will be redeemed, or read the Constitution and the…