
The “end of history,” as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate.
Amid the triumphalism of the Cold War’s end, Francis Fukuyama foresaw the “end of history” with capitalist liberal democracy prevailing. But that hubris has confronted failures of both capitalism and democracy in recent years, raising doubts about history’s course, ex-CIA…