The people of the United States have always been determinedly religious. What is new is the public recognition of this fact and the debate over the problems that attend it. In high schools and colleges across the country, students are reading textbooks that state as fact that the United States is, or is rapidly becoming, a secular society, an assumption not supported by empirical evidence. The massive "Middletown III" study of Muncie, Indiana, directed by Theodore Caplow concluded that the people of the United States are more religious today than they were a hundred years ago. Although the public resurgence of religion is hardly limited to fundamentalism, fundamentalists are a primary focus of the public debate. Fundamentalist political activism may be viewed as an "aggressive defense." This defense is directed against what they perceive to be governmental actions dictated by "secular humanists." However, even those who try to understand the religious Right sympathetically wonder exactly what the Fundamentalists want. One useful answer is the American Coalition for Traditional Values' (ACTV) list of ten issues in its campaign to "restore traditional moral and spiritual values" to U.S. life. The list includes prayer and Bible reading in public schools, a "pro-life" constitutional amendment, legal restrictions on pornography, an end to state "harassment" of Christian schools, resistance to feminist and gay rights legislation, increased defense spending, and the termination of social programs that may only increase the dependency of the poor. (BZ)