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David Brooks on politics as a limited good

Quote19 November 201727 May 2019 llwilmoth4 Comments

To fix politics, care more about other things. […] It should be said that people on the left and on the right who try to use politics to find their moral meaning are turning politics into an idol. Idolatry is what happens when people give ultimate allegiance to something that should be serving only an […]

Gilbert Meilaender’s Augustinian politics

Quote6 January 201410 September 2014 llwilmothLeave a comment

Gilbert Meilaender’s Augustinian politics We look to politics for the satisfaction of so many of our desires; yet, thinking with Augustine should remind us that the deepest longings of the restless human heart can never be stilled by any good that politics provides. And because this is true, because even our most powerful institutions cannot […]

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