This is a re-released series of lectures by Reinhold Neibuhr, and I think the re-release edition provides some context for what kind of reader and what kind of moment this was intended to meet. It came out in 2008 or so and was introduced by Andrew Bacevich. In my mind, this places it right in the context of a rise in certain forms of online journalistic pushback to Bush and the Bush Doctrine. The book itself is also remarkable because of the self-critical take on […]