by Henry Oliner | Feb 9, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) John Stuart Mill opened his classic On Liberty by noting that as countries became democratic, people...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Illiberal democracies gain legitimacy, and thus strength, from the fact that they are reasonably...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 31, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) It is odd that the United States is so often the advocate of elections and plebiscitary democracy abroad....
by Henry Oliner | Jan 29, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Finally, and perhaps more important, power accumulated to do good can be used subsequently to do ill. When...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 24, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
From Fareed Zakaria in Foreign Affairs from 1997, The Rise of Illiberal Democracy: (this may require registration to read the whole article which I encourage. ) Since 1945 Western governments have, for the most part, embodied both democracy and constitutional...
