“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints,” wrote C.S. Lewis. Catholic Political Realism is a realism about Catholicism’s inherent ...

Why do people hate realism so much? It’s a thoughtful question asked by Stephen Walt in Foreign Policy. Walt is a card-carrying foreign policy realist, his work on alliances and his theory of balance ...

Drawing on their new book, Hopeful Realism, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson lay out an Augustinian and evangelical theory of the natural law and show how it can be employed within ...

Political realism doesn’t outweigh scientific realism. “Let’s be realistic.” That’s the advice coming from a growing number of voices in climate circles in the United States. In October, billionaire ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I argue it is time to embrace a new approach to world politics that deals with what may be humanity’s gravest existential challenge: preserving the ...