An American Foreign Policy That Both Realists and Idealists Should Fall in Love With.

It rolls for the first chunk, when Wright is describing the broad outlines of progressive realism as a bridge between idealism and realism, but then it gets bogged down in some old-think on turning to the UN as the ultimate answer. Wright's earlier points about faith in markets should have led him to promote the notion of more competition--thus new rules and new institutions rather than tired formulas of UN-this and arms control-that.

Still, good piece overall. I would gladly call myself a progressive realist. That label certainly beats Republican versus Democrat, or Wilsonian versus Kissingerian, or Idealist versus realist. And that's Wright's main point: the old dichotomies get you nowhere.