Sublime

that a man who has been seized and transformed by the “more excellent way” can bend the curve of history so that freedom’s cause is advanced.

hortatory

a larger cultural forgetfulness on the part of believers and unbelievers alike.

Principle of Relevant Evidence.

in recent years the prize for being regarded as the most celebrated writer on race has not fallen to the most ameliorating or pacifying voice,

intrusive, potent cultural values of contemporary America have skewed Christianity’s classical beliefs and deconstructed the Church’s wisest and proven faith-forming practices.

Principle of Relevant Evidence.

What he was really doing was giving up the republic, but so gradually and with such tact—while displaying at every stage such self-evident benefits—that the Romans would adapt to and even embrace their new environment, hardly noticing how much it had changed. They themselves would become crops, vines, cattle, and bees. For unlike Xerxes, Pericles,

to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh