Reflections on the End of an Era is the only major book of Niebuhr’s to never be reprinted. This was, in part, because its account of a world fraying at the seams did not resonate in subsequent decades the way it did at the height of the Great Depression. But as Cornel West points out, this is also why Reflections is so important: “It’s really about the decline and the demise of Capitalist civilization as we know it, owing to escalating levels of corruption, and greed, and cronyism, and nepotism, and narcissism. That could have been written today.”
