“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

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"Idealism" indicates concern for some higher good and "realism" shows concern for things as they actually are. Idealism runs through Greek thought, but their philosophers were realists and were ...

Fareed Zakaria’s “The World Needs American Idealism Again” (Review, Nov. 21) should be required reading for every American. That “collective security and collective endeavors were in each nation’s ...