![]() ![]() Yet her contrarian instincts are better at challenging assumptions about biblical and American values than in diagnosing more terrestrial problems. ![]() New Atheists like Sam Harris and medieval nostalgists like Rick Santorum would each find occasions for garment-rending in this collection. Through rigorous citation and deep personal reflection, Robinson builds an excellent case. “When I Was A Child” is a broadside defense of literature and classical liberalism that demands we include the unfashionable Old Testament as a foundation of both. Yet it grants a central argument of many religious conservatives - that America’s virtues are indeed steeped in biblical thought. Her new essay collection, “When I Was a Child I Read Books,” is - despite the sentimentality of its title - fundamentally a leftist political manifesto and lament for America’s loss of faith in government. Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today’s political alignment. ![]()
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