Freedom's cost has been too high; Not the end of history, but the end of 'unnatural individualism'.(Features)(Ideas)(Books)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: June 24, 1999| Author: Shi, David | Copyright information

Francis Fukuyama is one of America's most provocative social analysts. His much-discussed 1989 essay, "The End of History," declared that the collapse of Soviet communism eliminated ideological conflict as the engine of historical change. The ultimate stage in human history had been reached. Market capitalism had triumphed, and democratic values were spreading inexorably across the globe.

Fukuyama, a freethinking neoconservative who teaches public policy at George Mason ...

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