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The Upsides of a Realist Perspective on the World
When I was growing up, we never worried about war among great nations or nuclear war. Never heard about climate change because of temperature barely above the Green Duster level. The last one had been in 1918, Spanish flu. In the West, we lived in liberal democracies through liberal respect to minorities. And now I see serious challenges to the 75 years of relative peace, prosperity, and progress since World War II.