Jacob Heilbrunn has a good piece here on what the GOP needs to do to survive. His argument in short: get real — or realist — on international relations. Return to the Republicanism of prudence and vigilance and so on. All sensible and important stuff, which this magazine has been saying since its founding.

Unfortunately, for the party’s new breed of ideological plastic surgeons, a foreign-policy makeover seems one post-Bush facelift too many.