“We’re entering into a new age of American realism,” Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, declared recently on Fox News. Americans are not ready for a war with China. In ...

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?, ...

When challenged by modern realism they evaded the issue by asserting that it was not modern, and by denying that it was realistic. Thus, as every textbook will show, it was serious’’’ argued ...