Spanish dictator Francisco Franco regularly read The New York Times because he amusingly thought it the voice of international Freemasonry, historic nemesis to his preferred rightwing continental Catholicism. The Times has long had totemic status often beyond reality. So there's no surprise that David Brooks' recent Times piece on reformers within Evangelicalism got wide response. He spotlighted some Evangelical dissidents whom some conservative Evangelicals disparage as panderers to the zeitgeist as embodied by the Times.