“I have long been amazed at how ignorant and uncurious even intelligent and urbane journalists I-ve worked with are about conservatives, especially religious conservatives. They are, if anything, stauncher believers in the monolithic and uncomplicated evil of religious conservatives than vice-versa. Many erstwhile colleagues have looked at me-their friend, despite my Catholicism and Republican Party registration-with the same slack-jawed incomprehension as elderly Southerners when they step off the tour bus in London and hear a black man speaking with a crisp British accent.”