Robinson’s The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World, just released from Penguin Press. In around three hundred pages (plus a hundred more of meticulous ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

Public trust in government edicts that are ostensibly science-based has sunk to new lows, and the regulated have become leery ...

Starry-eyed, Zionist kibbutznik idealism? That went out with the long-haired hippies and bell bottoms of the 1970s. But not for everyone. I have two dear American-born friends, Dan Schoenfeld and ...

Ideas in economics can sometimes prompt policies that promote the greater good. But ideas motivated by idealism and then pursued with intense commitment are rare. Yet these are the qualities that make ...

The general concepts of idealism and realism appear to have captured truths about what should be and what is, respectively. The idealist’s contemporary focus on the humanitarian consequences of ...

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Emersonian idealism was part of a larger antebellum emphasis on moral perfectionism, a powerful cultural yearning for heaven on earth, which Higginson adopted along with temperance reforms ...

From the first moments of his presidency, Kennedy evoked a sense of security and a spirit of idealism which reassured Americans of their nation's strengths and inspired them to serve their country ...

All these elements can also be found in her work "Idealism in Colors", which features a large figure hanging from a black-and-white Quetzalcóatl. Held by its legs, the figure, wearing mustard-colored ...