“In Trump’s first term, these realist impulses were muted and sometimes stopped by hawkish national security staffers who did not share his vision. But having learned that personnel is policy, Trump ...

In his speech in Riyadh, President Trump said his administration was adopting “Principled Realism”—capitalized in the official White House version of the speech, as if to make a statement that there ...

So you’ve decided to become a realist. Not a philosophical realist, like Wittgenstein or Popper. Not an artistic realist, like Courbet or Millet. And not a literary realist, like Balzac or Flaubert.

Conservative realist-nationalists do not want war with China — no one in their right mind does. How to defeat our main enemy without war is the great foreign policy challenge of the early twenty-first ...

The Realist was a magazine both representative and counter to the times it existed in. Viciously satirical and usually aimed at power (like all good satire should be), it was neither liberal nor ...

Realism has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. Perhaps Plato put it best when he said, “He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.” ...