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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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Liberalism in the sense I am using it refers to the rule of law, a system of formal rules that restrict the powers of the executive, even if that executive is democratically legitimated through an election.
Francis Fukuyama • Liberalism and Its Discontents

viewing certainty with suspicion and acknowledging, with both regret and resolve, the imperfectibility of man, the fallibility of institutions and the tragic—rather than redemptive—nature of history.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Après l’effondrement du capitalisme mondialisé et de l’économie de bulles dans les années 2000, la décennie 2010 est ainsi marquée par le krach de la démocratie sous la vague populiste qui emprunte des formes variées :
Nicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

They’d been covering the radicals and the hippies so much that now his viewers couldn’t see past them. The gray areas had ceased to exist. And old Cronkite had two thoughts about this. First, anyone who thinks television can bring the nation together to have a real dialogue and begin to understand one another with empathy and compassion is sufferin
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