Ross Douthat’s  (@DouthatNYT)  response to Bass’ response to his article on “Liberal Decline” sounds much like an “IS NOT”.  The final paragraph could be construed by the outside observer as a good example of the  “self-satisfied, self-regarding, all-too-American faith ” judgment he applies to the “Progressive”, “Christianity after the institutional church” he ascribes to Bass: But I feel like we already know what that Continue Reading