There’s no shortage of thinkers and scholars who call themselves or their school “realist.” The legal realists, the political realists, the geopolitical realists, and on and on. Since Machiavelli, the self-styled realist has been seen as little more than a puffed-up cynic. And certainly the way many speak of “realism” has a certain cynical tone to it, t…
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