Garry Wills Quote
Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur’an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib—as true and accurate in all particulars.4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century—already, as it were, being measured for its coffin—dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape
Garry Wills
Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur’an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib—as true and accurate in all particulars.4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century—already, as it were, being measured for its coffin—dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape
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About Garry Wills
Wills has written over fifty books and, since 1973, has been a frequent reviewer for The New York Review of Books. He became a faculty member of the history department at Northwestern University in 1980, where he is an Emeritus Professor of History.