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Australian Books

A darkling plain

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

History’s Fools: The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics David Martin Jones

Hurst, pp.288, $60.95

Thirty years ago, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its puppet regimes unleashed widespread celebration, especially among their suppressed subjects. The hopes then aroused for the wider world, however, have since faded year by year.

The strategic studies scholar David Martin Jones writes in this important new book how ‘a liberal world view premised on shared norms, open markets, open borders and an abstract commitment to social justice’, along with the end of ideological history, now ‘lies in tatters’.

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