Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.

No, ‘Western society’ has not fallen from some mythic elevated past. But such right-wing views are appealing, and the left needs an answer to them if we want to avoid being pushed back into traditional hierarchies.

Some on the right are ditching “originalism” for a far more radical theocratic legal philosophy that imposes the laws of God rather than the Constitution.