Hughtopia isn’t like most utopias. It can be achieved. It is a world of 15-minute sermons, 20-minute after-dinner speeches and three-hour concerts where the main act starts on time and if there is a warm-up band, it isn’t awful.

In Hughtopia, all cable hosts are as pleasant and prepared as Sean Hannity, all radio hosts read the books of the authors who appear on their programs, and all authors are as terrific as guests as Del Wilber, Lawrence Wright and Robert Caro.