Don Quixote was not a foolish man who tilted at misperceived windmills. He was a dreamer, an idealist who refused to accept a diminished vision of the world. His pursuits, albeit impractical, were born of a burning hunger for meaning, justice, and beauty. Reality as commonly accepted is often too narrow to contain human aspiration. Quixote dared to imagine an ideal world and live as though that imagined world was real. Can we take Quixote not as a figure of comedy b...