Unlike Ross Douthat, I rather liked his op-ed in yesterday’s NYT. It struck me as more right than wrong. About the distinction between the justice the state must provide and the love Christians are obligated to show, for one thing. About the pointlessness of asking “What would Jesus do?,” for another. About the folly of claiming the Lord for one political party or another. Some of the claims made in the op-ed tend toward the extravagant, and Douthat provides a needed corrective. But Wills’s piece also contains truths that are always worth calling to mind.