What Would the Alternative to Liberalism Really Be?

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In the 19 sixties, before the civil rights movement, if you were in african america, and there were many parts of downtown washington, d c, you could not walk him. Now we want to have a system where we should have explicitly help the historical victims of oppression by designing policies that their condition improves. I think that that is pretty much what would happen at really just an uification of transit. You see to day where in every college admissions club, membership, piring and promotion decision, you know, made by a private company,. The first question that you'd ask is: What's the race, gender, so forth, of the candidate? And ten,

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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