Ross is bringing some crucial facts to the table here, but when considering the fearsome topic of Evangelicals in Politics The New Yorker is not exactly interested in facts. Thanks to people like Kevin Phillips and Jeff Sharlet, most left-leaning journalists are deeply committed to the belief that the major intellectual figures among evangelicals are Schaeffer (who hasn’t been influential in thirty years) and Rushdoony and his ilk (who have never been influential at all).