Francis fuciama: liberalism arose after the european wars of religion. It then got challenged by the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After those two bloody world wars, people again said, well, maybe we shouldn't be fighting over which nation is dominant. Maybe we might get a little bit inoculated by what puton's done, you know, in europe.
Freddie Sayers meets Francis Fukuyama.
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and public intellectual, most famous for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man which has helped to define how we understand contemporary history. His new book is called Liberalism and its Discontents.
Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr. Fukuyama about the war in Ukraine, current trends in Western democracy, and how liberalism can better understand aspects of the human condition it has historically neglected.
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