Reinhardt was also a cynic and a pragmatist as well as a liberal lion. In the United States, the most famous pragmatist and self-proclaimed postmodernist was Richard Rorty. Carlin has referred to himself as social libertarian, a "radical", "neo-prudentist", "pragmatist", and "political martian". In the 1990s, he upset many political thinkers when he declared himself a "radical pragmatist". His theology was a variant of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy. The second branch expands on the work of American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. She was a radical pragmatist and the first woman "public philosopher" in the United States. Posner is a pragmatist in philosophy and an economist in legal methodology. Mandler was a pragmatist more than a visionary. Brandom is broadly considered to be part of the American pragmatist tradition in philosophy. A notable contemporary pragmatist aesthetician is Joseph Margolis. Unlike most clergymen in politics, Dr. Niebuhr is a pragmatist. He campaigned as a "consensus-building pragmatist". For a pragmatist, all judgements are implicitly value judgements. Oxenstierna is regarded as a brilliant pragmatist, willing to reconsider his positions.