Today, my interests are as much theological as they are political. I’m reading a philosopher, Charles Taylor, and would recommend in particular his book Sources of the Self. I’m also reading the Great Atheists—I see the New Atheists, people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris as Lilliputian front men for the Great Atheists of a hundred years ago—I’m thinking of figures such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, to some degree Marx, Bertrand Russell, and even Jean-Paul Sartre. Ultimately, I think as Christians there’s a need to confront those atheists and the arguments that they make.

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