By (the president’s) faith are we to be saved . . . .
The New York Times > Magazine > Without a Doubt:
“When I was first with Bush in Austin, what I saw was a self-help Methodist, very open, seeking,” Wallis says now. “What I started to see at this point was the man that would emerge over the next year — a messianic American Calvinist. He doesn’t want to hear from anyone who doubts him.”
An interesting overview of the making of the president, how he turned his back on the weakness of introspection and deliberation and embraced certainty.
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
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