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Is democracy on a roll? You would think so if you listened to President Joe Biden\u2019s speech<\/a> at last week\u2019s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was vintage Biden, the rhetoric alternately soaring and stumbling. He started with \u201cthe transformational power of freedom\u201d in Lithuania and its Baltic neighbors as they broke free of Soviet rule, lighting up \u201cthe flame of liberty.\u201d The enlargement of NATO and the advance of democracy are one and the same, he argued, because the alliance is \u201cbound by democratic values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fine words. But what if democracy, far from being ascendant, is really in retreat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niall Ferguson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of \u201cDoom: The Politics of Catastrophe.\u201d He is the founder of Greenmantle, an advisory firm, FourWinds Research, Hunting Tower, a venture capital partnership, and the filmmaker Chimerica Media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally published in Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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