The Light That Failed: A Reckoning Condition:Like New you’ll end up in the

you’ll end up in the poorhouse

Tamarind Fish Curry

What hold could the gangs have on the old guy

”— Modern Language Notes

an opium smuggler

The Light That Failed: A Reckoning Condition:Like New you’ll end up in theWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be