Among the responses I received for last fortnight’s column on dealing with cynicism were a few that pointed to the difficulty of keeping hope alive in the face of repeated failure. How can one avoid ...

The Review of Metaphysics is devoted to the promotion of technically competent, definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any ...

President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech have generated considerable discussion about the old dispute between realists and idealists in foreign policy. The ...

Historians will lose no time in telling you that the rhetorical conflict between "realist" and "idealist" in foreign policy is not something new in American history. President John Quincy Adams argued ...

The death of Richard Nixon has brought renewed argument over the oldest disagreement in the American foreign policy debate, that of “realism” versus international idealism. Nixon is celebrated as the ...

It often appears that the policies of an elected official differ significantly from those espoused by the same person when running for office. Does this reflect a betrayal of principles, hypocrisy, or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The new Trump administration is delivering huge changes in the way the federal government operates. One expected result is for the conduct of science programs to reflect realism rather than idealism ...

*As readers have likely gathered, here at the blog we're mighty keen on "design fiction" and "architecture fiction," while science fiction is, of course, pretty much an existential given. *But what ...