A salient point: "In a way, that fundamental mistake—that democratic freedoms follow inevitably from free markets—invalidates all by itself Fukuyama’s argument." This goes to your recent essay on Dubai, and it recalls a point I made frequently with hawkish friends during the Iraq War, that a McDonald's goes up on every street we claim to liberate.
A salient point: "In a way, that fundamental mistake—that democratic freedoms follow inevitably from free markets—invalidates all by itself Fukuyama’s argument." This goes to your recent essay on Dubai, and it recalls a point I made frequently with hawkish friends during the Iraq War, that a McDonald's goes up on every street we claim to liberate.