Se il realismo di Niebuhr arriva alla Casa Bianca

That is the title of the article by Professor Gianni Dessì, Italy's leading expert on Reinhold Niebuhr, introduced and translated here by Sandro Magister — Obama Has a Great Teacher: Lutheran Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

"His political realism has been a point of reference for intellectuals and politicians, both conservative and liberal," says the author. I'm a non-interventionist, but "realism" is a step in the right direction away from the messianism of neoconservatism and liberal interventionism.