The Washington Post, September 15th, 1989
Last year it was American decline. This year, Washington's newest intellectual fashion is the "end of history," the brilliant and outrageously provocative thesis of Francis Fukuyama. According to him, now that the Cold War is over and we have won, now that the rest of the world is bent on adopting Western ideas and institutions, history-with its great crusades and wars and ideological struggles-is over. The rest is commentary-a peaceful, rather boring eternity during which mankind, through with fighting, turns the world into one big capitalist bazaar. Fukuyama is only half wrong. It is not his...
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