Are We Predisposed to Prefer War to Peace?

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Do you think that we might have taken it too far, and we might actually be bad for the west in the long term? I'm not ready to say it was a mistake at this point. One of the deeper themes in your work, that stretches right back to the end of history and earlier, is that there are motivations within the human condition which oftentimes works at cross purposes. Do you now think we are predisposed to prefer war to peace in some way? Oh, not under all circumstances. But there is something that drives us in that direction.

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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