Thomas Fleming on the Founding

There is a strong tendency even among the best Americans to go off the rails in the search of an absolute set of simple principles that can be used to defend an identity... Some Protestants want to make of this country a propositional nation with a divine mission; some Catholics damn the whole country, largely because they accept the stupid Evangelical-liberal version of US history. Both sides are not only wrong: They are tedious.... Neither the Almighty nor the Enemy created the United States, indeed, a correct understanding of the republic would prevent us from speaking of this confederation as if it were a unitary nation. In the end, the unitarian libertines beat the trinitarian conservatives, and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

The New Beginning has the rest — Traditionalists and the American founding.