David Hollinger at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, has a thoughtful if tough-mindedreview of Mark Lilla's(regis. required) new book in the London Review of Books.For my review of Lilla seeCommonweal from last October.Hollinger's essential point is that liberal Protestantism, roughly treated by Lilla as collapsing due to intellectual incoherence and hastening the rise of fascism to fill the theological void, has a much happier history in the United States. And he ends with the intriguing claim that Barack Obama is in some ways a new chapter in the history of liberal Protestantism, seriously Christian but determined to make arguments that do not depend on confessional premises.