Tulsi Gabbard and the Courage to Speak: Why Diplomacy is Not a Sin

Diplomacy Never Works—Until It Does

Fiction has a peculiar way of speaking the truth that real-world politics often refuses to admit. In the season finale of The Diplomat, Hal Wyler delivers a strikingly raw monologue about the maddening, soul-crushing, yet absolutely necessary practice of diplomacy. His words ring with a hard-earned cynicism: diplomacy …