Liberalism and the Civil War

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One of the main criticisms that people have of liberalism is it has never lived up to its own ideals. It's not a coincidence that liberalism was the ideology of states that colonized other countries, he says. The charge that somehow this flows from the liberal principles themselves is completely wrong and unconvincing for another reason. But i do think that, you know, if you just look at what the united states looked like in the 18 fifties compared to today, very hard to say that we haven't made a lot of progress.

Francis Fukuyama, one of the most important living political scientists, is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His writing spans from the origins of society in earliest prehistory to the rise of modern democracy and the identity wars of the 21st century. His new book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, a defense of the values of free societies, is scheduled for release in April 2022.

In this week’s conversation, Francis Fukuyama and Yascha Mounk discuss how neoliberalism has gone awry, the excesses of individualism on both the right and the left, and how to rejuvenate liberalism.

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