Finding God at the End of History

Hardly any reader needs to be reminded: in 1989, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War was "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." This represented the "End of History," in the sense that history had rendered a definitive verdict: liberal democracy and capitalism are the most successful forms of social and political organization by virtually every conceivable measure.