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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, by Fareed Zakaria (Norton, 256 pp., $24.95)

Mae West is said to have remarked that too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Fareed Zakaria, in this brilliant if imperfect new book, disagrees: He rather inclines to the view of Samuel Huntington, who once wrote that "a value which is normally good is not necessarily optimized when it is maximized." Zakaria aims this inclination at the notion of democracy, and not a moment too soon. It is impossible to pick up an American newspaper or magazine these days without reading some thinly veiled (and thinly reasoned) sermon on the imperative to democratize ...

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