The Tyranny of Nostalgia

Notes Toward the Definition of a Christian Political Sensibility 2

Politics today is manifestly a realm of fantasy.  Perhaps it always has been; but I feel fairly certain that there was a time when most people found it far easier to distinguish between the feasible and the fabulous in civic affairs.  For instance, I doubt that Plato or Thomas More or Tommasso Campanella ever worried that his Republic or Utopia or City …