Publications

In these United States, that phrase “the rule of law” is often taken to be a piety in the civics…

In Poland today, ex-communists and their ex-communist allies in an ex-communist rural party enjoy a majority of seats in parliament,…

The Revolution of 1989 in east central Europe, and the successes and failures of democratic and market transition that have…

In the aftermath of the Cold War and what was prematurely assumed to be the final triumph of democracy and…

The most developed expression of the East Asian critique with which I’m familiar can be found in the Spring 1994…

In Ambassador Mahbubani’s considered opinion, it is time for the West to rethink its basic notions of human freedom and…

The social rot of American life, as Mahbubani perceives it, has had enormous political consequences, which are intensified by the…

Thus it is time for America to return to the philosophical drawing board. When citizens, even in suburbs, live in…

No doubt that’s true. A well-ordered society not only can be good for individual citizens; it is the prerequisite both…

Stripped to its essentials, the claim of the Singapore School is that authoritarianism works (economically and socially), and that it…

The political risks of Singapore-style authoritarianism are also serious; left unaddressed, they could well jeopardize the East Asian miracle. As…

There are numerous other problems with Kishore Mahbubani’s account of contemporary American life. His imprisonment statistics are quite misleading; the…