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“... war against tyranny that culminated in the battle for Afghanistan. Apart from the echoes of Reinhold Niebuhr – the furrowed brow, the feigned reluctance to use force – the words could have been spoken by George W. Bush. Among his apologists, Obama’s capitulation to convention has two main explanations. One emphasises the regimented hostility ...”

“... listen to lectures that might quite often have been mistaken for sermons. Under the influence of Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr he had been trying to come to terms with Christianity, and from his reading of Pascal (instructive concerning doubt), Augustine (authoritative concerning sin), Buber, Tillich and above all ...”

“... Kogon’s book was received in the context of a humanistic universalism. The concentration camps, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in his review, were ‘the closest thing to hell in human history’; ‘the moral sloth and inhumanity’ Kogon’s book reveals, he added, proves ‘that it is possible for mankind to fall to a lower level than anyone would have ...”