i think that if you actually had a good historical understanding what it was like in that period, and the cuklux clan could actually hold a huge, well attended rally on the national mall, you'd see that that wasn't correct. There is an argument made by some of theber identitarians, or proponents of a certain kind of identity politics, that basically nothing has changed. And i'm conscious that i don't want to end up sounding as a defender of liberalism, like those defenders of communism,. for whom i don't have very much patience in me. End even thorh my grandparents who were very decent people, were convinced. Communists, thoaspathy for how decent people
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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