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He is the author of The Theocons (Doubleday/Anchor) and The Religious Test (Norton) and a former senior correspondent at The Week. As a consulting editor at Penn Press, Linker acquired academic and commercial books in political theory, intellectual history, and current affairs.
Damon Linker is a senior lecturer in political science at Penn, a newsletter writer, a podcast participant, and a book author. He studies modern conservatism, the religious right, reactionary thought, and right-wing populism.
God made all men equal. But men make religions, and they are not all equal. Some beliefs—and arguments against belief—are simply incompatible with life in a liberal democratic society. So argues Damon Linker in the freshest and most intellectually stimulating book on church and state to be published in some time.
Damon Linker is a former conservative who writes about the rise of the antiliberal right, the progressive left, and cultural topics. He publishes three newsletters on Substack: Eyes on the Right, Looking Left, and Above the Fray.
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My Fellow Liberals Are Exaggerating the Dangers of Ron DeSantis. DeSantis would be bad. But he would not be worse than Trump. By Damon Linker. Guest Essay.
24 maj 2022 · Damon Linker is a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test. He writes opinion pieces on politics, culture, and religion for The Week, covering topics such as Trump, Biden, abortion, Ukraine, and France.
