Authoritarianism – Charm

The Father of Chinese Authoritarianism Has a Message for America

Cs news16 hours ago021 mins

When Russian and Chinese élites talk about history, they often mean “History”—the grand Hegelian march toward progress. Since the end of the Cold War, the East has lived with the undignified thesis, popularized by Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay “The End of History?,” that democracy had defeated the authoritarian alternatives of the twentieth century. That idea…

Assad Regime’s Collapse Should Strike Fear in the Hearts of All Tyrants | Opinion

Cs news1 week ago1 week ago010 mins

On Dec. 10, longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and abdicated his position as the country’s strongman after a whirlwind 12 days of regime collapse. He had inherited his autocracy, along with the banal instruments of repression and delusion used to control the country’s restive, multi-ethnic, multi-religious subjects, from his late father, Hafez…