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Article: Elective surgery: democracy and freedom don't necessarily go hand in hand.(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- May 1, 2003
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THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria, W.W. Norton & Co., $24.95
THERE IS NO MORE CHERISHED political assumption in the United States than that democracy is good and every other form of government is either bad or inferior. In a book expanding on a thesis published in Foreign Affairs two years ago, Fareed Zakaria challenges that assumption and posits a superior alternative, one he calls constitutional liberalism.
Zakaria summarizes his argument as such: "Modern democracies will face difficult new challenges--fighting terrorism, adjusting to globalization, adapting to an aging society--and they will have to make ...