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Enemies within?(The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege)(Book review)

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The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, by Damon Linker (Doubleday, 272 pp., $26)

OF the making of conspiracies to undermine the political well-being of the United States, it seems, there is to be no end. In the past couple of years, of course, considerable attention has been paid by the press to the neoconservatives, alleged to be a group of hardened warmongers originally brought together under the auspices of a long-dead refugee professor named Leo Strauss, whose tentacles reached first into the bowels of the American university and from there, through a group of intellectuals and public officials, into the topmost reaches of the U.S. government. From the ...

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