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Damon Linker is the author of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, published in hardcover by Doubleday in September 2006, and published with a new afterword in trade paperback by Anchor Books in 2007. The Theocons expands and historicizes the term theocon, following a few key political figures from their initial left-wing beginnings in the 1960s, including Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel. Linker is also the author of The Religious Test: Six Political Commandments for Believers and Atheists, published by W.W. Norton in 2010.

Linker is a former editor of the journal First Things, founded in 1990 by Fr. Neuhaus, and taught political philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is currently a Senior Writing Fellow at the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Linker has published political and social commentary in The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. A native of New York City, he currently lives in suburban Philadelphia with his family.

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