The past few years haven't been kind to foreign policy idealism--the belief that when authoritarian states mistreat their own people, it is a matter of concern for all of us. We idealists can largely ...
A new biography of Aaron Swartz tells the story of the ongoing fight between open-data philosophy and the federal government. Calling someone—or oneself—an idealist is not always a compliment. It ...
In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some degree; ...
America is the reluctant sheriff of a wild world that sometimes seems mired in wrongdoing. The UN has nothing to offer in the way of enforcing laws and dispensing justice, other than spouting pious ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith When we we talk about ...
Are you an idealist … or a cynic? Is it possible to be both? Are the two attitudes polar opposites, or two halves of the same coin? I’d argue that a cynic is just an idealist who’s been disappointed ...
A few days ago, in searching for the full version of the famous Calvin Coolidge quote that "the business of America is business," I came across another line from the same Coolidge speech that is not ...
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