Classical Liberalism in the United States to Day?

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i think a much bigger current thread right now is the one that's coming from the trumpion right because i actually agree with bob cagan that we're already in a constitutional crisis created by this narrative about the election. And so that's an date one that we need to deal with on the question of whether non maga people, orin the main stream, actually believe in anything. So how strong a tradition, how alive a tradition, do you think classic liberalism is in the united states to day? And what does it tell us about the prospects for success of the coming decades?

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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