The Importance of Continuating Democracy

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In recent years, a lot of people feel that they now take political positions. People are vulnerable to being excluded fom those systems if they don't fit. In a sense, these incredible sanctions against russia are the kind of next stage of that. Is something that we should worry about, because it it makes feeling confident in a liberal democracy less possible.

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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