Abstract
Ours is a culture that does not value religion, and in public life the consequences range from our willingness "to let a court, of all things, settle many of our toughest moral dilemmas"to a climate that compels religious people to deny their most fundamental selves upon entering the public square. In The Culture of Disbelief, Stephen Carter, a professor of law at Yale, shows how our public culture trivializes religion, and argues that this is a grave mistake.