David Bentley Hart with some wise words on the story of our times: The late modern picture of reality is, culturally speaking, something altogether unprecedented. In the days of, say, Thomas Aquinas, there was no particularly cogent alternative to seeing nature as a rationally ordered continuum in which all things witnessed to a final good, at once cosmic and moral. Even if one did not concur with Thomas' (often very questionable) moral judgments, one could scarcely reject many of his...

Will you vote for my comment at the New York Times? I'm trying to practice what I preach, to use Stanley Fish's anti-liberalism as an opportunity for gospel proclamation—or at least emperor-nakedness proclamation.