Despair is the fate of the realists who know something about sin, but nothing about redemption.
Self-righteousness and irresponsibility is the fate of the idealists who know something about the good possibilities of life, but know nothing of our sinful corruption of it

(Reinhold Niebuhr)

lunedì 30 luglio 2012

What remains of the Atlantic Community?




In The Irony of American History (1952), Reinhold Niebuhr observed that «the 'Atlantic community' is becoming a reality partly because it does have common cultural inheritances and partly because the exigencies of history are forcing mutual tasks upon it». Many decades have passed since then. And historical and political conditions have changed. Today, what remains of the atlantic community?

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