A few weeks ago, I was discussing the launch of the Palm Pre with my friend Darren. I like the Pre, and he does too. I would rather have one of these than an iPhone, even though by all accounts the build quality of the hardware isn’t that great. It makes up for it by [...]

A related question is whether realism is actually part of the Republican Party’s intellectual DNA. Philip Zelikow says no, not really:
As a historian, I think one of the more remarkable things about the Nixon-Kissinger approach to great power relations and détente is actually how anomalous it was in comparison to the record of America’s international [...]

There’s an interesting discussion right now on Foreign Policy about the future of realism and the Republican Party. Daniel Drezner kicks things off with this post, to which Will Inboden responds:
[T]he debates within Republican circles that I recall from inside and that I have found most interesting outside tend to be fairly pragmatic — what [...]

David Smith on the similarities between South Africa and America:
In both America and South Africa, race remains a significant factor in social inequality, crime patterns or trying to predict how people will vote. On the surface, South Africa is the country that apparently flicked a switch to install a black governing elite for its majority [...]