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Danny Postel

Danny Postel is a contributing editor for Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2006) and the editor of the forthcoming The Shadow of Kosovo (Cybereditions). His website is at www.postelservice.com

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Ramin Jahanbegloo, Hossein Derakhshan and openDemocracy

openDemocracy's publication of Hossein Derakhshan's article about the release from detention of the Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo was a serious lapse in editorial judgment, says Danny Postel.

Ramin Jahanbegloo: an open letter to Iran's president

The Iranian philosopher and openDemocracy contributor Ramin Jahanbegloo was arrested on 27 April 2006 at Tehran airport. In this message to Iran's leaders, writers, scholars and journalists from around the world call for his release.

The 'end of history' revisited: Francis Fukuyama and his critics

Francis Fukuyama's renowned argument about universal history and liberal democracy remains a source of dispute. openDemocracy is publishing the author's new Afterword to "The End of History and the Last Man", followed by reflections from international thinkers on this seminal work. Here, Danny Postel introduces Fukuyama's essay and the symposium.

'Conscripts of modernity: the tragedy of colonial enlightenment,' David Scott

“The need to reconceptualise the past in order to reimagine a more usable future.”

Fukuyama's moment: a neocon schism opens

The Iraq war opened a fratricidal split among United States neo–conservatives. Danny Postel examines the bitter dispute between two leading neocons, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer, and suggests that Fukuyama’s critique of the Iraq war and decision not to vote for George W Bush is a significant political as well as intellectual moment.

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