A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF TIME.

Describes the Waco Branch Davidian disaster and siege in Texas and its political implications with regards to a liberal doctrine in the United States. Liberal imagination with a mixture of managerialism and emotionalism; Failure to engage the Branch Davidians in terms of a liberal order; Characterized by an irreconcilability of meanings; Federal authorities' perception of cult members as criminals; Davidians' treatment of authorities as forces of Satan; Leader David Koresh as disgrace to the tradition of eschatological activism.