Last fall, my students were reading Reinhold Niebuhr's 1952 classic, “The Irony of American History,” when the renowned theologian's title came alive for them: Soon after FBI Director James Comey announced an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.
As Comey came under the microscope of national attention, we learned that he had written his undergraduate thesis on Niebuhr.
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