Although there have been some
clever moves in
political philosophy to explain why the religious voice should not be a part of our public debates, such theories wind up describing debates from which deeply religious people are simply absent.
After a childhood
moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is
clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary,
political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge — and is quite the cineaste to boot.