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Here’s what progressive realism in foreign policy really is
Robert Wright, whose books include “Nonzero” and “The Evolution of God,” is publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter and host of the “Nonzero” podcast. This essay is adapted from a longer entry in the Nonzero Newsletter. “Progressive realism,” according to …