Is There a Liberal National Identity?

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The instinct to want to belong to a culture that you recognize as your own. Or part of it's tribal, i guess its another or negative sounding word for it. Is that something that the liberal world needs to accommodate better? Ah, both. It really depends on what that community is based on. So i think in today's world, if you simply base it on race or ethnicity, o on a single religion, it isn't going to work.

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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