Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present [Hardcover]

A Powerful . . . Zakarias book will help readers feel honored and grateful that we get to be part of this glorious and ongoing liberal journey. He understands that we liberals cant just offer economic benefits; we also have to make the spiritual and civic case for our way of life. Few thinkers can grasp the complexity of this moment, but Fareed Zakariadoes it masterfully. Congrats to @FareedZakaria on his dazzling new book, Age of Revolutions, out later this month. So much in it! I found myself marking passage after passage, fact after fact. You gain 10 IQ points just reading this book. Zakaria has figured out policy wonkery and TV, and many points between. The Indian-born pundit could thus claim to be Americas best-known tutor on world events. Even by his standards, however, [Is] the rot in the system fixable or fatal? In his book, Zakaria performs an invaluable service in framing these questions precisely the right way. How sturdy, in the end, will the American and global systems prove against all these hurricane-force winds of change? Whats at stake is modernity itself. Zakaria believes that we can and do make progress. But he is wary of the assumption that history tends to move in the direction of ever-greater human flourishing . . . Zakarias book represents an attempt to distinguish between revolutions that have inspired thermostatic reactions and revolutions that have endured. Zakaria [is] a lively writer and good storyteller. . . Zakaria warns against revolutions that move too fast and displace too many people; it now seems thats exactly what went wrong in the last 40 years with the rise of the global economy. This is