
26: Francis Fukuyama: Trump, Modi, and ‘The End of History’
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Rise of China and the Rise of the Right
The rise of China is also, I think, something that undermines a theory that was out there in the social sciences. The motor that might be driving global democracy is really not such a motor after all. It's actually very complicated because if you look at the agenda of a lot of progressives, they do want to inject a lot of those cultural issues into the kinds of demands that are made. So for example, LGBTQ rights kind of rise to the top of the Western liberal agenda when Uganda passes an anti-gay law.
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