Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less than We Know

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Below is an article by Public Affairs Television senior writer Michael Winship.

The Awful Price for Teaching Less than We Know

By Michael Winship

Watching Glenn Beck's performance Saturday at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, DC, I thought of the novelist Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the charlatan evangelist who seduces most of those around him with his hearty backslapping and false piety.

Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as...