After the Future tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-223564 2009-06-22T10:48:04-07:00 "Without the ultrarational hopes and passions of religion no society will ever have the courage to conquer despair and attempt the impossible; for the vision of a just society is an impossible one, which can be approximated only by those who do not regard it as impossible."--Reinhold Niebuhr TypePad Change Can We Believe In? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68365903 2009-06-22T10:48:04-07:00 2009-06-24T07:35:57-07:00 This blog's primary mission has been to make the attempt to understand the nature of cultural change and its political effects. My basic premise has been that we are in the midst of dizzying changes that we mostly don't understand,... Jack Whelan Quote of the Day: Jonathan Swift tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67550269 2009-06-02T09:38:45-07:00 2009-06-02T09:38:45-07:00 We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (h/t Eunomia) Jack Whelan