I have noted before that the Conservatives' intentions go well beyond repairing Britain's public finances: they are engaged in an ideologically driven effort to downsize the British state, particularly the welfare state.
(As an aside, Mayor Bloomberg's intemperate attacks on Judge Scheindlin, whom he denounced in a Washington Post op-ed this week as an "ideologically driven federal judge" who engaged in "brazen activism" and "showed disdain for our police officers and the dangerous work they do," are preposterous and demeaning — not only to the judge but to the mayor himself, who surely knows better.
Unfortunately, one of the realities is that there are many ideologically-focused citizens who are actively engaged in the destruction of government programs as an end in itself.
But my personal networks are, on the whole, exceptionally engaged politically while remaining fairly homogenous ideologically.
Once again, it was we who were targeted; once again, we would be engaged on many fronts against an ideologically committed foe.
Come to think of it, it probably feels a bit like being a superpower engaged in a tense standoff with a similarly powerful but ideologically opposing hegemon".
Like two prizefighters who have engaged endlessly, Time and Newsweek have become more alike than ever -- ideologically centrist, endlessly in search of the next big thing, always with an eye on what the other is doing.
Students at Middlesex University, in north London, are engaged in a lengthy "sit in" over plans to phase out philosophy teaching at their campus, a decision they claim is ideologically driven.
In 1966, at ETA's fifth conference, the organization divided ideologically into two wings the "nationalists," or ETA-V, who adhered to the traditional goal of Basque autonomy, and the "ideologists," or ETA-VI, who favoured a Marxist-Leninist brand of Basque independence and engaged in sabotage and, from 1968, assassination.
