Sublime

It began with a quote attributed to an unnamed American playwright: “On the wreckage of all dead civilizations should be inscribed, ‘They did not dare.’ ” Beneath this bombastic opening, however, was an exhortation that touched a nerve, a summons that would come to characterize a core theme of the campaign to come—a challenge to shake off the letha

The problem of the third institutional cycle is that the door was opened for massive federal oversight of American life, without defining limits and without establishing an institutional structure capable of managing its vast authority.

Even before the 1936 election, John Nance Garner, perturbed over the direction the New Deal was taking, had been protesting to Franklin Roosevelt. Garner had felt the emergency measures of the Hundred Days were necessary; he felt that the President had saved the country. But by 1934, he felt the emergency was over; the measures should be phased out

He wanted forty thousand acres of parks.

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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

My title predates the environmental movement now known as “green.” For me, in 1970, “green” referred to human beings, not just to nature. We humans retain the power of change and growth, and we must use this power to the utmost in order to free ourselves.