Word: realism
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First, stop thinking in outdated terms of national interest and security.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...
What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...slips into a life where privacy is obsolete, she starts to be visited by actresses from the past--Dorothy Lamour, Tallulah Bankhead, Marion Davies--who seem as real to her as the Virgin Mary might to other kinds of believers. We have entered the shivery realm of celebrity magic realism...
Bellows was a member of the Ashcan School in the early decades of the twentieth century. As the name of the school suggests, Bellows and his colleagues depicted the grit and filth of the city landscape, developing a new form of urban realism...