Sublime

The political structure that emerged was quite simple. The Republican Party could mobilize massive financial resources and mobilize its popular base to vote against its material interests on cultural/religious grounds while the Democratic Party could not afford to attend to the material needs (for example for a national health-care system) of its t

He is pointing us to some obvious patterns of cultural interaction—family life, business, art, the university, church, state—and he is saying that each of these is intended by God to do its own “thing”; each has a different role or “point” in God’s design for his creation. The state should not control the arts, nor should universities (or seminarie

Lee Kuan Yew: The state should provide its people with the maximum enjoyment of freedoms and respect the family unit. The state should embrace multiple nations yet demand loyalty

the state had only a derivative authority as a minister of justice under Christ and His word. The political source of law, then, traced back, not to Caesar, but ultimately to Christ and God’s law.1

In Jefferson’s time, such opposition to government per se—such fierce frontier individualism—might have made Stevenson a real democrat; in the more complicated mid-twentieth century, his reluctance to make use of the powers of his office allowed the continuation of the vacuum in Texas government in which special interest groups—the Texas oilmen, na

Rather than being ruled by state power, a corporatist polity is meant to constrain it within a balanced institutional ecology.

“The state”, he writes along these lines in one of the texts presented in this volume, “is not the whole of human existence and does not encompass all human hope. Man and what he hopes for extend beyond the framework of the state and beyond the sphere of political action. This is true not only for a state like Babylon, but for every state. The stat