http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/05/26/niebuhrian-in-the-white-house/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:29:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/05/26/niebuhrian-in-the-white-house/comment-page-1/#comment-6259 John Carlson Thu, 28 May 2009 22:26:52 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=1703#comment-6259 Nice column, Gary. Will be interesting to see how---and how much---ambiguity becomes institutionalized through the policies and positions that the new administration adopts. One wonders if there will be an inevitable gap between the amount of ambiguity that a public intellectual like Niebuhr and a public official like Obama can sustain. Nice column, Gary. Will be interesting to see how—and how much—ambiguity becomes institutionalized through the policies and positions that the new administration adopts. One wonders if there will be an inevitable gap between the amount of ambiguity that a public intellectual like Niebuhr and a public official like Obama can sustain.

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