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The common tendency around universities and elsewhere is to think that politics is about changing the world. William Cavanaigh argues that the world has had enough of well-meaning middle class Americans trying to change it. He talks about what goes wrong when we see politics in terms of remaking the world in our image and argues that we should think of politics in terms of allowing people to make a life for themselves. He looks at the Genesis story and God's patience, changing the world slowly, through one obscure Middle Eastern people. Finally he considers the cross, and God's patience and humility there.