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Article: History does not culminate in "liberal democracy".(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 14, 1996
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On Dec. 6, the same Richard Grenier who usually skewers the follies and the fools of liberalism stepped out of character by gushing over "liberal democracy," going so far as to side with the view that liberal democracy is the "end of history" ("Choosing sides over history"). Let us look at this matter with the kind of jaundiced eye that Mr. Grenier has shown on his own better days.
All the institutions valued by conservatives (including the family, limited government, representative assemblies, the church and even the free market) have origins that long precede the so-called Enlightenment's initiation of the modern liberal project to "liberate" us from ...