With only two Tests before the start of this summer's Ashes on 8 July, England have ended a tour that looked to be an ideal fact-finding mission with more questions than answers.
The debate about the nature of political reconciliation reflects a concern, not only with ideals of political relationship, but also with non-ideal facts about societies torn apart by injustice or violence.
But she is ideal, in fact.
So ideal, in fact, that the Queen of England sleeps on one.
That changed when the prevailing ideal became fact-based documentation without preconception.
Yet it was an idealization of democracy that the Bright Line respondents were asked to rate, and it's worrisome to think that some of them — political scientists whose students may become journalists, officials, and political staff — don't consider it a democratic ideal that facts are viewed as something more than "the perception out there".
Grasping that last idea lets us understand why right wing government means twisting American ideals, the facts, and the Constitution, while said government "leaders" serve us up to their oligarch masters.
In ancient Athens, as in contemporary America, true democracy was always an ideal, never a fact.
It's a lofty ideal, but in fact we negotiate with terrorists all the time.
This democratic leisure ideal had, in fact, been a key element of the dream of the Founding Fathers.
ON THE Isle of Anglesey, the notion of a bilingual Wales seems not so much an ideal as a fact of life.
