Jeff Sharlet: John Wilson, writing from “one of the nerve centers of the evangelical conspiracy” — he’s the editor of Books and Culture, evangelicalism’s New York Review of Books — makes an admirable effort to debunk the secular liberal conception of evangelicals as “foot soldiers” in “culture war.” But the first clue that Wilson’s attack itself may involve some caricatutre is the fact that it takes place not in the evangelical press, but in The New York Times Book Review. Apparently, some evangelicals aren’t so disconnected from the media establishment, after all. Wilson is one of them, and G-d bless him for it; his Books and Culture is one of the better book reviews, secular or religious, published in America. But his place at the top of the mountain of intellectual evangelical publishing has, perhaps, blinded him a bit to the reality on the ground, where “culture war” and other military metaphors are common, indeed. Worse, it’s allowed Wilson to imagine evangelicals as an oppressed minority — in the most startling and historically distorted passage, he seems to be comparing evangelicals to African-Americans in the 1960s. Wilson insists that evangelicaldom is not a monolithic movement. True, indeed, as his essay illustrates — <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Wilson2.t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=review" the privileges and blindspots of class are on full display in this otherwise compelling argument.