I enjoyed David Hart’s review of Damon Linker’s The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege for the New Criterion, as I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Hart. (Excerpts of the review are online here.) I did wonder, as I read it, whether the book could be quite as bad as all that. In particular, I’m a little surprised by the claim that Linker doesn’t know much about the history of ideas. He has always seemed reasonably sure-footed on such topics.

Which reminds me: I meant to ask Steven Hayward what he thought of Linker’s review essay on Strauss. The last time I talked to Hayward, he was noodling over writing his own book on Strauss.