Security Council countries took a turn at word interpretation yesterday, somewhat ambiguously invoking the need for “realism” in negotiations between Western Sahara and Morocco, which has occupied the ...

President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger were realists in their approach to foreign relations, realism meaning analysis of the power relations among major nations in ...

Many practitioners of professional magic refer to themselves as “illusionists,” a more formal and palatable term, and one that suggests an artistic craft that some folks just aren’t that good at. A ...

Thomas Pynchon is, to put it mildly, a hard man to pin down. There is, of course, his admirable refusal to publicise his books. This has inspired odd rumours that he is J.D. Salinger, Salman Rushdie ...