The dead of Socialism & the end of the story ...

A curated selection of articles from The New Criterion’s  thirty-five-year history. The death of Socialism by Roger Kimball What is socialism? In part, it is optimism translated into a political program. Until he took up gardening, Candide was a sort of proto-socialist... more Francis Fukuyama and the end of History by Roger Kimball It is difficult to remember an article in an intellectual political quarterly that made as big a splash as did Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” when it appeared in the Summer 1989 issue of The National Interest. While... more