Here’s something to celebrate: Next year will mark two decades since history came to an end. In 1989, the Cold War fell apart: the Berlin Wall crumbled, the Soviet Union began to dissolve, and the West triumphantly climbed atop the rubble. Francis Fukuyama jubilantly proclaimed that we’d reached, “The end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” In short, capitalism had won.

Camille de Toledo was 13 years old at the time and asks, in his scathing manifesto Coming of Age at the End of History, “Do you think growing up is easy when your mother is a cemetery?”