Great explanatory power in Talia Lavin’s latest, “The Christian Right’s Deal With the Devil”:

Political attitudes and policies that can seem inexplicable and monstrous from the outset always have their reasons, their own internally coherent logic, even if those reasons seem outrageous to outsiders.

If we want to understand today’s religious right, Talia argues, their actions make a lot more sense when you realize that for millions, the Satanic Panic never actually ended.