Empathy for the Devil: The Fantasy of ‘Progressive Realism’ Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings. Matt Johnson 30 Jul 2024 · 20 min read
Kissinger’s Folly In its cold materialist outlook, Realism fails to recognize that every nation has a unique set of interests shaped by its own history, geography, and beliefs. Brian Stewart 13 Dec 2023 · 16 min read
Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities. Borys M. Kowalsky 14 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
Mearsheimer: Rigor or Reaction? What John J. Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine, international affairs, and much else besides. Matt Johnson 15 Feb 2023 · 21 min read
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson: Heroes for Moral Realism? I see very little promise in grounding a moral realism (insofar as such a thing is ultimately a viable project) in terms of evolutionary fitness, and much more promise is taking Harris’ tack. John Klasios 28 Jan 2017 · 11 min read
One Way Ayn Rand Aficionados Are Unrealistic Just as it is unfair to compare idealised socialism to a realistic but flawed capitalism, so too is it unfair for Brook to compare his idealised capitalist vision to realistic socialism. Michael Ezra 4 Nov 2016 · 3 min read
