

David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present
Aug 13, 2009
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Introduction
00:00 • 6min
The Irony of American History
05:40 • 3min
The Joy of a Progressive Worldview
08:59 • 2min
Reinhold Neibor and the American Present
10:47 • 5min
Obama's Foreign Policy Will Be a Neborian Realist
15:27 • 3min
Barack Obama and the Adamic Tradition
18:02 • 4min
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Importance of Faith
22:10 • 5min
The Challenge of Pluralism in Our Time
26:52 • 2min
The Role of Religious Language in the Politics of Democracy
28:54 • 3min
Reinhold Nieber and the American Present
31:56 • 4min
The Importance of Communism in the Face of Islamic Extremism
35:49 • 3min
The Nature and Destiny of Man
38:19 • 3min
The Relationship Between Moral Commitments and Religious Reservations
41:21 • 3min
The Public Culture of Reinhold Niebuhr
44:45 • 2min
The Irony of American History
46:48 • 5min