It’s said there are no atheists in foxholes. Especially when the ammunition’s run out. Certainly all of us taxpayers, thrust as bailout cannon fodder into the battle to save global finance, may sometimes brood over America’s four word article of faith - “In God We Trust” - the entreaty that clings to the back of every dollar bill… We put the question of this dicey balance between faith and reason to Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and author, most recently, of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World…

Published in Fairfield Weekly.com on 11/05/09