While spreading democracy may be an admirable goal, the US must be clear-eyed about the costs of promoting American-style government in parts of the world with no history of democracy

The end of WWII closed one chapter of conflict against tyranny and opened another which we are still fighting

From 1945 to 1947 as the United States and Soviet Union moved toward the Cold War, Christian realists writing for Reinhold Niebuhr’s journal, Christianity and Crisis, responded to global dilemmas. Here are five impressions of those articles, along with lessons for today.

After traveling through Europe in 1947—including to Scotland, Amsterdam, and Switzerland—Reinhold Niebuhr wrote some reflections, including on state churches, the Truman Doctrine, Christian political parties, and more.

“Unless we accept the Russian view of the nature of man, we cannot work with the USSR to a common end for human society.”