"Public Reason Disease"

I have a review of Steve Shiffrin's excellent new book, The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, in the current issue of Commonweal.  I don't agree with everything in the book, but I heartily endorse his willingness to respond to the religious right's influence in politics, not by demanding that they take their theologically informed political views out of the public sphere, but by seeking to offer better political views, and to "combat bad theology with good theology."