Elegantly Undone: How Democracies Collapse in Silence
“The velvet autocrat doesn’t break laws. He writes new ones.” Democracy, as it turns out, does not need to be shot in the street. It can be chloroformed quietly in its sleep – no blood, no outrage, just the soft hum of constitutional procedure. Today’s autocrat doesn’t wear medals or epaulettes. He wears a party […]
Can the West Still Learn?
The West believed it had history figured out. But the Global South stopped waiting—and started building. Mahbubani doesn’t want apologies. He wants adaptation. A briefing from inside the machinery, when the engine starts to fail.