Do
recent events in Egypt constitute a failure of democracy, or a triumph of civil
society, or a bit of both? It
is hard not to be ambivalent as the latest iteration of the ‘Arab Spring’ plays
out in Cairo and around the country. On
the one hand, it is scarcely a year since Mr Morsi became president, after what
seemed to have been free and fair elections, and now the Army has intervened
and he is in military custody (with other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood).
