Commentary Over Easter, The American Catholic published a photographic illustration of just how much things can change in a single lifetime. In the photo, enormous crosses formed by lighted windows blazed above New York’s skyline as part of the 1956 Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This was Easter in the year of my tenth birthday and a poignant reminder of how much the future of ordinary people can be affected by an unhinged intelligentsia dedicated to radical action in the present. Today, in cosmopolitan Western cities, almost any civic display of religious faith, especially one of a Judeo-Christian nature, is unthinkable. Not only has the practice of religion been in decline, it has fallen into particular disrepute among our highest credentialed, progressive elites. During the 2008 Democratic Party primary, would-be presidential candidate Barack Obama sought to link religion to violence and racism. Speaking about America’s fly-over voters he said, “And …