The Authoritarian Temptation

June 24, 2016                                                                                                                                              PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth In 1976, the French political theorist Jean François Revel warned of the “totalitarian temptation” in the West at a time when many intellectuals were attacking political democracy, often in favor of Soviet communism. Forty years later, the danger posed by Soviet communism is gone, but [...]