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A walking contradiction.(The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back)(Book review)

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Andrew Sullivan The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back. HarperCollins, 304 pages, $25.95

 
   He's a walking contradiction, 
   Partly truth and partly fiction, 
   Taking every wrong direction, 
   On his lonely way back home. 
 
   --Kris Kristofferson 

Andrew Sullivan never tires of reminding readers that he is a Catholic, yet he is the rather odd sort of Catholic who proclaims the "spirituality"--I'm not kidding, the word is his--of sexual encounters between strangers who don't even bother to reveal to each other their names (what Sullivan calls "anonymous sex"). He also advertises himself as a conservative, but in this, too, he is a ...

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