After helping to found Liberal Russia, an anti-Putin party, Berezovsky had an ideological falling-out with one of his two cofounders.
Self-immolation is a supreme spectacle, a theatre of nationalist or ideological politics acted out for the world's media.
Once the ideological tide went out, Germans and others "went back to being normal human beings, liberal citizens".
For most of the past century, consensus in American politics has been more phantom than fact, especially when it comes to staking out ideological ground.
The seventies and eighties were also a kind of golden age in the Senate, where ideological adversaries figured out ways to make common cause.
John Moody, the vice president for news at Fox News Channel, disputes the notion that the various News Corporation outlets coordinate coverage or carry out ideological directives.
It was a showcase for the postwar German tendency toward consensus, and was all the more remarkable for the contrast it provided to the bitter ideological clashes playing out in the United States and many other big democracies.
These excerpts inspire a lovely rumination from Mr. Hou while also charting the distance between China then and now, and underlining the aesthetic and ideological territory staked out by two of its most brilliant filmmakers.
This fundamental ideological paradox, drowned out by partisan shouting since before the plan's passage in 2010, explains why Obamacare has only lukewarm support from many liberals, who wanted a real, not imagined, "government takeover of health care".
The ongoing discord embodies an ideological fight playing out across the country: one of belief in public land for all versus public land for those savvy enough to put it to commercial use.
