The Genie Won’t Go Back

“In fairness to [Glenn] Beck,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in her “On the Square” column today, The Old Times, the End Times, and Glenn Beck ,

he and Sarah Palin and the rest managed to craft something nearly unthinkable in 21st Century America: a political event so infused with a higher sense of purpose as to eschew the political, or at least to not name names.

The problem, she writes, is their call for restoration, which forgets that “genies do not go back into bottles [and] reclaiming some of the foundation will not restore lost innocence.”

Coming later this morning in On the Square, the Heritage Foundation’s criticizes BP for a kind of statism.

And don’t forget the extensive discussions still going on of Joseph Bottum’s Holy War Over Ground Zero , George Rutler’s The Liturgical Experts’ Long Tassels , and Mary Rose Somarriba’s Artificially Conceiving a Bad Romantic Comedy .