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Idealists, seeking to lift themselves up from the depths of social obscurity and be fêted as heroes, become, whether as Army Rangers or members of violent militias, willing sacrificial victims.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020

Idealists generally operate on the economic fringe, well outside the rarified niche of legendary financial success.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

Idealists renounced materialism and pledged to live together in loving communities, holding all goods in common.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Your pal Justin Peters here with another update on The Idealists, the book I'm writing on Aaron Swartz, copyright, open access, free culture, and the secrets of close-up coin magic.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2014

All the Idealists demanded was physical endurance from the mass.

From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold