The Real Model Is Not East Asia, You Know?

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Doyou: A good institution should not depend on the good will of whoever happens to be in power right now for people on the left. Doyou says that if a rupert murdock takes over facebook, or some equivalent character on the right, would they be as happy leaving that up to private power? "The real model is not east asia, it's the classic westminster system"

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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