Alan Wolfe is director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, as well as a contributing editor of "The New Republic" and "The Wilson Quarterly." He is author of "One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other" and "Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice." Both were selected as "New York Times" Notable Books of the Year.