prove to be enormously intolerant and dogmatic. Political correctness is the new absolute. This political correctness is intolerant of intolerance, not of substantive ideas. This form of open-mindedness does not identify with open discourse but with the conclusions of skepticism. It wants to own its own premises while denying other ideas the right of certainty. It reinstates certainty by denying it! Yet the media loves to depict evangelicals as “intolerant.” Postconservatives committed essentially
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