Herbert Butterfield

George Kennan was among the greatest American foreign policy minds of the 20th century

Herbert Butterfield and Reinhold Niebuhr, the two great 20th-Century Christian Realists, must be essential to a recovery of liberalism

Hard to imagine why Yale University Press would publish Samuel Moyn’s new book when its narrative is so detached from reality

Herbert Butterfield, despite having been one of the world’s foremost Christian Realists, was deeply conflicted on nuclear arms.

Wishful Thinking Idealism, unlike Christian Realism, believes that everyone, even competition, is fundamentally reasonable.

The world gets better and at sundry times through the action of people who did not realize what they were doing.”    

Butterfield did not offer us Christian apologetics, but he did offer a Christian understanding of history far more appealing than Lewis’s dismissal of the project.     

How do Christian Realism, Christian idealism and Christian cynicism approach the Ukraine War?

Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press argue in “The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution” that the Atomic Age isn’t too different from other ages. Geopolitical rivalries, arms races, military doctrines, stalemates, and much else are still the same.