As the US threatens to again attack Iran, Babak Rahimi writes on Habermas's death and on liberal democratic ideals: "Law no longer appeared as a rational normative force restraining power, but increasingly as the juridical expression of sovereign will."
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Habermas’s liberal idealism may now linger as a kind of story most visible at the edge of disappearance, where loss and transmission drift together under the shadow of perpetual war.