A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism

September 18, 2003 | This article appeared in the October 6, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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In his 1998 book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe chided
liberals for their misapprehensions about the political attitudes of
ordinary Americans.

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Michael Massing

Michael Massing, a New York writer, is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and Columbia Journalism...

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