Ross Douthat's Hellfire & Brimstone

Chesterton famously wrote, “There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy.”

With the furor arising from some corners upon the release of his new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Ross Douthat might be inclined to add to the big man’s dictum, “or anything so willfully misunderstood and resisted.”