The Prophetic Conflict: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Second World War

William Charles Inboden will give a public lecture titled, “The Prophetic Conflict: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Second World War.” Elizabeth Borgwardt, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis, will offer a response to the lecture. This event is sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics.

William Charles Inboden is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in 2010. Prior to his appointment at the LBJ School, Inboden served as Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute, a London-based think-tank. He also served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked on a range of foreign policy issues including the National Security Strategy, democracy and governance, contingency planning, counter-radicalization, and multilateral institutions and initiatives.

Prior to that, Inboden worked at the Department of State as a Member of the Policy Planning Staff and as a Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom. He is a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy magazine.

Inboden was also a Civitas Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and has worked as a staff member in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. He has lectured widely in academic and policy settings, and received numerous research and professional development fellowships. He is the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment, (Cambridge University Press). Inboden received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees in history from Yale University, and his A.B. from Stanford University.