Robertson and The Reagan Gap

It would be wrong, and dangerous, to ignore the chord he is striking

THE AUTHOR, HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN CULTURE AND PUBLIC POLICY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, HAS WRITTEN SIX BOOKS ON AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, MOST RECENTLY REAGAN'S AMERICA. THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF ANALYSES HE WILL BE WRITING FOR TIME

A moral alarm clock is going off in America, and not many politicians hear it. Pat Robertson does, and so do more of his fellow citizens than we less godly folk have been willing to admit. "The press missed the Reagan Revolution," Robertson told me recently, and it is true that much of what Robertson is saying -- about prayer...

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