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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where

Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless

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My guest this week is Jonathan Roach. John is a senior fellow in the Governance Studies

program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of eight books, four of which I have personally read and can highly recommend.

Kindly Inquisitors, the new attacks on free thought, the happiness curve, why life

gets better after midlife, the Constitution of Knowledge, a Defense of Truth, and his latest book, which is the focus

of our conversation today, cross-purposes Christianity's broken contract with democracy. John argues

that Christianity is a load-bearing ball in the American civic polity, but that evangelical Christians

have turned away from their core beliefs

in favor of the kind of destructive, overzealous party political activism that is contributing

to the pernicious polarization of U.S. society.

He offers some models for returning to a vision of Christianity more compatible with civic virtue

and urges Christian and atheist Americans to find better means of coexistence.

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