He is the father of idealism... .

Yet the rhetoric of idealism has not quite disappeared.

The Kremlin is very good at feigning such idealism.

His idealism needs to be tempered by the limits of American power.

When the pedal hits the metal, the idealism can get moved away.

Democratic idealism was once the domain of the left, including social democrats and liberals.

And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.

Can President Obama lead the way to a new era of social and political idealism?

Despite partition, India's mood in the first decades of independence was one of idealism and hope.

This program, like so many educational or cultural Israeli Palestinian partnerships, began in starry eyed idealism.

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Domestic political reaction to Woodrow Wilson s global idealism produced the intense isolationism that delayed America s response to Hitler.

My idealism is more to point that out than to try to invent those details in the story.

The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

The messianic idealism that liberated Europe from Nazism and protected Western Europe from communism is now directed at other enemies.

But I think the wrong approach would be to find stories and then to put my idealism in the stories.

In fact, Americans do not need a new political party with Obama s reelection, voters have endorsed precisely that credo of pragmatic idealism.

The idealism of India s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power.

This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.

I was a student in the '60s, a time of social upheaval and questioning, and on a personal level, an awakening sense of idealism.

While the Iraq War discredited the idea of coercive democratization, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of idealism in their foreign policy orientations.

But what is needed to revive liberal idealism is a set of new ideas on how to promote justice, equality and freedom in the world.

But the memoirs of these rebellious vanguards of yesteryear highlight only their youthful passion and pure idealism, or their sufferings and those of their parents.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave neo con intellectuals the chance to lend their brand of revolutionary idealism to the Bush Cheney enterprise.

The idealism of Japanese intellectuals in the 1930 s and early 1940 s was partly responsible for Japan s catastrophic war to liberate Asia from Western imperialism.

But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

All forms of leftist ideology indeed, everything that smacked of collective idealism came to be viewed as misguided utopianism that could lead only to the Gulag.

The idea of controlling epidemic disease and cutting absolute poverty sharply by 2015 is not naïve idealism, but hard headed thinking amply supported by the best evidence.

But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.

When China fell to Mao s Communists, however, and North Korea got Chinese and Soviet backing for an invasion of the south, democratic idealism was stopped in its tracks.

But how much of that dignity and idealism could possibly have survived the ordeal of 27 years in prison, most of that time on Robben Island in the South Atlantic?

So it is no wonder that a left wing internationalist, such as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, has found a kind of home for his idealism in Nicolas Sarkozy s conservative government.

But he was obsessed with the notion of expanding the executive powers of the president. The combustible mix of autocratic ambition and misguided idealism took hold soon after the terrorist attacks in September 2001.

The idealism of India s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power. The way India s political system evolved has made politics the surest path to wealth.

With the youthful idealism of a 26 year old, in 1987, I started my company and I called it Joie de Vivre, a very impractical name, because I actually was looking to create joy of life.

The first is inertia, combined with (or disguised as) idealism the mistaken idea that the Internet should be free not just for speech, but also from payment. Yet it costs something to maintain an infrastructure that keeps people safe.

A new documentary, When Muppets Dream of Peace, tracks the harrowing joint production of Sesame Street in Israel and Palestine, with a Jordanian production team brought in to help facilitate. This program, like so many educational or cultural Israeli Palestinian partnerships, began in starry eyed idealism.

When China fell to Mao s Communists, however, and North Korea got Chinese and Soviet backing for an invasion of the south, democratic idealism was stopped in its tracks. In Japan, former war criminals were released from prison, reds were purged, and right wing governments led by some of those same former war criminals got enthusiastic American backing.