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title: Review - The Future of Freedom
date: 2005-01-26
tags: ["Book Reviews","Freedom","Politics"]
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[![The Future of Freedom](/images/0393324877.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg)](/cgi-global/amazonbounce.pl?isbn=0393324877&assoc=gothmogstolkiena)

I will hardly be the first person to recommend [The Future of Freedom](/cgi-global/amazonbounce.pl?isbn=0393324877&assoc=gothmogstolkiena), Fareed Zakaria's book on the politics of democracy and freedom, but I wanted to add my vote.  I am hardly an expert in government and politics and have rarely found books on this topic that I care about deeply even remotely interesting.  Zakaria does an excellent job of making his topic approachable.  In reading the book I had many "ah-ha!" moments as observations and points he made clicked with things I had half observed came into focus. In addition to the history and perspective the book gave me, the critical point I think he makes is that there is a difference between democracy and freedom in a country.  Both are needed, but one does not imply the other.  Nor is freedom without democracy necessarily a bad thing (and sometimes is a good thing).

Good book. It will make you think. Go read it (assuming you are into thinking, that is).