![College Admissions, Cheating, and Existential Anxiety](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/32665623358_17e02f0bbd_k-600x567.jpg)
The recent cheating scandal in college admissions underscores the anxiety even the wealthiest, most famous parents feel about their children’s future – an anxiety aptly described and predicted by Reinhold Niebuhr, among other mid-twentieth-century theologians, and one whose effects we can and should mitigate by political means.