
David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Nature and Destiny of Man
There's this line from irony of American history. We are drawn into an historic situation in which the paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity. I mean, that could apply as much to global terrorism, as to communism. In writing the Constitution, Madison was sensitive to the fact that men are not angels. And so again, he was anti-communist but believed that that war was wrong and counterproductive.
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