In his 2004 book, Who Are We?, Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington argues that America' s national identity is in danger o f being lost because o f the influx o f immigrants, particularly Hispanic, who are not being assimilated to American society. Huntington believes that the American identity was formed through the interaction o f the Protestant Christianity o f the original settlers with the New World. He calls fo r a revival of the American identity through a return to its sources, but fails to see that the liberalized and attenuated Protestant Christianity o f today is no longer capable o f revitalizing the American identity. I. Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington has long been considered one of America's most distinguished political scientists. With his 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, 1 he demonstrated that human societies and civilizations are not driven by politics, economics, and secular concerns alone, as so often seems to be the way they are viewed and described today. Much more fundamentally, they are based on religions and cultures. Huntington's division of the world into eight major "civilizations," for the most part, corresponded with the territories of the world's great religions. Interestingly enough, however, he identified no single Christian civilization, but rather distinguished three of them: Western, Latin American, and Orthodox.2 His analysis of the past, present, and possible future "clashes" between the various world civilizations has since resonated very widely, especially after 9/11, since Huntington gave considerable attention to what he called "a high propensity to resort to violence" among Muslims, and he also noted, pertinently, that "wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors."3 In his new book, Who Are We? The Challenges to America' s National Identity, 4 Professor Huntington takes up again some of the themes of his Clash of Civilizations, but this time from a somewhat