Aaron Weinstein is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Brown University and a regular contributor to here & there. His interests include the intersection of religion and politics, specifically the American civil religion, atheism in the public sphere, and the political role of Christian evangelicalism. A graduate of Cornell University, he received his A.B. in both Government (magna cum laude) and History. His senior honors thesis, “The Religionsmiths,” examines the separate relationships between neoconservatism and each of the three main monotheistic faiths.