The Realist Review

The Realist Review

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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippmann.
Foreign Affairs and US Politics.
Standing athwart Neoconservatism and Liberal Interventionism.

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About James W. Carden

Author of The Great Betrayal: How the Democrats Became the Party of War (ORxNation Books, 2026). Contributing editor, The Nation magazine. Co-host, Warrior Diplomacy Podcast with Col. Douglas Macgregor.