A review of Power, Press, and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN, by Leonard R. Sussman.
About the Author
Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny (1992).
For all the concern over authoritarianism’s advance, the competence of governance may be what determines the next chapter in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship.
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