Allowing the banking system to disintegrate was held to be unthinkable,” the late British philosopher Mark Fisher writes in his 2009 book, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, ...

One expected result is for the conduct of science programs to reflect realism rather than idealism or political beliefs. This expectation needs to be fulfilled quickly to improve the public’s ...

The central value proposition of “Warfare,” the new Iraq War film co-written and co-directed by ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, is realism. On a technical level, it hits the mark.

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” The ...

His always incisive writings blend knowledge of geography, history, and usually healthy doses of Bismarckian realism. But in a new article in Foreign Policy, Kaplan strays from realism to embrace ...

The Climate Realism Initiative launched Monday by the Council on Foreign Relations assumes global warming will blow past internationally agreed targets and asserts that the U.S. should prepare for ...

In “The Case for Progressive Realism” (May/June 2024), David Lammy, then British shadow foreign secretary and now foreign secretary, proposes “progressive realism” as an organizing principle for a ...