No apologies required. I’m just amazed at the number of replies my comment elicited. I would have considered Ayers a wordsmith, but I don’t any more. That was a silly mistake, and any good editor would have caught it. My guess is that the editor assumed Obama wrote it and didn’t dare correct a ‘black’ author. If not that, then I have no hypotheses.
In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. It has been used by conservative critics, foremost William F. Buckley, as a pejorative reference to certain utopian projects, such as socialism, communism and transhumanism.[1] In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now (on Earth)" or "trying to create heaven here on Earth." [source: Wikipedia]