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First, stop thinking in outdated terms of national interest and security. This cynical realism is a self-fulfilling nightmare. Ironically, realist thinking endangers our security and eliminates significant economic opportunities. Policies need to be discussed in terms of global interests and values. Narrow patriotism is utterly unconvincing to a global audience...
...would be the presidential candidate, and Soong his running mate. "I don't mind what my position will be," says Soong. Some analysts see this as a wise display of pragmatism from a former governor whose popular support isn't what it used to be. "Soong is a political realist," says National Taiwan University political scientist Lu Ya-li. "He knows that the PFP isn't ready to rival...
...tutor and a petition to the Ad Board. Holden’s classes include: “Poets as Critics” (Lit 133), “Philosophy of Mathematics” (Phil 148), Trees (Science B-40), a conference course entitled “The 20th-Century Post-Realist Novel in Eastern Europe” (Comp Lit 164), the sophomore Literature tutorial (Lit 97b), a proseminar entitled “Husserl and Heidigger” (Phil. 136), and “Intensive German” (German Bab), which is the equivalent of two courses...
Hitherto unknown, at least by me, Henrik Rehr seems to have come from nowhere with a natural, realist drawing technique and a clear, seemingly effortless narrative style. Wisely conservative, Rehr knows that the dramas of that day need no enhancements. The advantage of drawing such events seems clear: they are indescribable. It really has to be seen to be believed. But Rehr doesn't just focus on the external, he smartly takes time out for flashbacks and interior monologues, giving variety to the storytelling and visuals. While the ultimate lesson of Henrik Rehr's "Tuesday...
...grabs. After he returned from Paris, writes Michael Mandelbaum in his recent book, The Ideas That Conquered the World, Wilson's negotiations with those Senators who thought that membership in the League of Nations would endanger American independence were "a masterpiece of political incompetence." Among the more hard-nosed realist practitioners of American statecraft--the sort of folk who have found a natural home in the Bush Administration--it has long been fashionable to deride Wilson as a fuzzy dreamer. In a January 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, who would become Bush's National Security Adviser, sniffed, with...