Saturday Commentary and Review #47 (One Year Anniversary)
Surkov on 'Sovereign Democracy', Anton on Machiavelli and Strauss, Post-Merkel Germany and China, Afghan "Allies" Abandoned, Chinese Modernism
There has been for some time now a tendency in the West to continuously narrow the definition of what ‘democracy’ is. Sometimes we must remind ourselves of priors or original definitions of concepts, just so that we can see how they have been corrupted over time. Distance give…