Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr...and Ignoring Him, Too

"There was a time when I was highly critical of Niebuhr. Now I think he was more than wise, and it is the Niebuhrians like Schlesinger who bother me. Schlesinger is right, however, to lament the passing of Niebuhr's influence -- a passing of which he himself unintentionally provides such a good example."