Across the globe, politics today is beset by illusions, conspiracy theories, apocalyptic visions, wishful thinking, false certainties, ungrounded ideologies – deceptive beliefs of all kinds. These delusions lead to terrible political choices and equally terrible outcomes.
It is urgent to return to the realities of politics, if we are to make sense of where we are and take care of what must be done to assure human survival and flourishing. Political realism is what the hour demands from us.
THE PROMISE AND PROBLEMS OF POLITUCAL REALISM
A conference at Berkeley, May 4-5