Somalia is experiencing progress according to several criteria, despite (or, some would say, because of) its lack of a strong central government. As a result, it is by far the fastest growing, fastest improving among all the less developed countries. This should be a model for the world.
Mexico is rapidly withering. Its very life is being siphoned off by a hopeless war on illegal drugs.
The world of Thomas the Tank Engine is impressively "bourgeois" — everyone is hard at work building civilization. The reason Thomas is the hero of the show isn't his strength (Hiro is stronger) or his speed (Spencer is faster). Rather, Thomas's one superlative trait is that he's a "Very Useful" engine.
This great company keeps reinventing itself to serve the public: real people, not abstractions.
While you may see those who walk away from underwater mortgages as morally wrong for breaking their mortgage vows, others see those who stay for the financial beating as stupid. No matter. As prices continue to fall, millions more will make a run for it.
Fukuyama, being a neocon, doesn't see the strategic role of liberty in encouraging individuals to lead virtuous lives.
When you go to the store or to the dentist, do you care whether the person serving you is a man or a woman?
