There’s a terrific discussion going on over at the TPMCafe Book Club about Michelle Goldberg’s provocative new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. As Jeff Sharlet observes:

We often produce smart, sometimes difficult books but not often smart books that are also short, pithy, and two-fisted. We need both -- the dense works of theory and history and the brave books such as this, rooted in reporting that attempts to understand fundamentalism on its own terms rather than dismissing it with either hysteria or condescension. Fundamentalism is real, and it's too popular to simply loathe it away -- that would mean loathing a significant portion of the nation.