As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
Reinhold Niebuhr
American Katechon
Nicolas Guilhot on when political theology became international relations theory.
Obama, Christian realism, and Just War theory
A round-up of some of the recent commentary on President Obama and the ethics of war, following the invocation of…
The Niebuhr connection: Obama’s deep pragmatism
One of the most important elements of Obama's pragmatism is the sense that "hope" can only be "realistic" if it…
Niebuhrian in the White House
Barack Obama is often described as some kind of Niebuhrian, a tag he has encouraged by describing Reinhold Niebuhr as…
A public theologian
Americans have elected the most theologically astute president since Jimmy Carter.