This is the best article I have read in along while.
It’s about turning points in history, and how individuals change history. It takes a look at 1979 the year Margaret Thacther, Pope John Paul ll, Deng Xiaoping and the Ayatollah khomeini changed the world, and asks if we are at a similar juncture now.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/18/the_great_backlash_1979