I think that there are scenarios for the 20 24 election that coun be very, very nasty and involve, you know, vile, actual violence. But i think it's a real danger that as an american citizen, i'm quite worried about. Your phrase, the end of history, is constantly quoted back at you,. It quite accurately describes a period of history which felt like the end ofhistory. And do you agree that period is now over? Oh, sure. I mean, we've been in te so calledd i rocession for 15 or 16 years now, in which case, what? What are we to call the next period that's coming?
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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