Author: Fareed Zakaria

  • In Defense Of A Liberal Education

    Liberal arts, as opposed to the hard sciences, are often regarded as a weak discipline. The yield from a liberal arts degree is considerably less, that is if everything is measured in terms of pay and perks. But, as Fareed Zakaria affirmed, liberal arts can train one on a whole…

  • The Future Of Freedom

    Excellent books are hard to come by. Either they are too wordy orpretentious. “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad,” written by Fareed Zakaria, who holds a BA degree in History from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, managed to strike a…

  • The Post-American World

    From the standpoint of Fareed Zakaria in “The Post American World,” the world is not an enigma. With emerging economies adopting various “killer apps”, to borrow the phrase coined by Niall Ferguson, countries once left behind by the United States and Group of Seven can attempt a strike back. China,…