By the time he wrote his follow-up book The End of History and The Last Man, published in 1993, Fukuyama could confidently state that one competitor was left “standing in the ring as an ideology of potentially universal validity: liberal democracy, the doctrine of individual freedom and popular sovereignty.” In the 35 years since the publication of “The End of History?” Fukuyama’s argument only seems stronger. For all of liberal democracy’s faults—and Fukuyama has hardly been reluctant to raise them—no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it. To the extent that liberal democracy has faltered, it’s from its own failings not because a better alternative has emerged.

-From The New Republic