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David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Obama's Foreign Policy Will Be a Neborian Realist

Obama is a post-60s liberal, he is in some ways a 30s and 40s liberal. I think that this foreign policy we are about to get will be much closer to the first President Bush's foreign policy than his sons was. And so I think that it will be a kind of realism tinged with a certain moral commitment. There's a tension in Nebor, Christian realism itself is not an oxymoron, but boy, that's a concept that's intention.

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