2024: The end of the End of History

THE NEW AUTOCRACY (PART II) - And a review of major trends as we stumble toward 2025

Thirty-five years ago, as communism was collapsing, US scholar Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the "end of history." His argument, later expanded in an iconic 1992 book, was that the ideological battles of the 20th century had concluded with the triumph of liberal democracy (and free-market capitalism). With the Cold War over, humanity had supposed…