Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author · United States · Academics · Born 1952 · age 73
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Something wrong?He declared liberal democracy the endpoint of history in 1992 - then spent three decades watching that thesis get tested by everything the world could throw at it.
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Putin told the Financial Times that liberalism has become an “obsolete” doctrine. While it may be under attack from many quarters today, it is in fact more necessary than ever.
In situations of de facto diversity, attempts to impose a single way of life on an entire population is a formula for dictatorship.
The Left’s identity politics poses a threat to free speech and to the kind of rational discourse needed to sustain a democracy...
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Born October 27, 1952, Fukuyama built his career across RAND, Johns Hopkins, George Mason, and finally Stanford, where he's held a senior fellowship at the Freeman Spogli Institute since July 2010 and directs the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. The End of History and the Last Man arrived in 1992 with a sweeping claim: that the global spread of liberal democracies and Western free-market capitalism might be humanity's final sociocultural evolution, the last form of government we'd need. The controversy was immediate and hasn't quieted. By August 2019 he'd taken on the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and he now sits on the International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders. The argument that made him has become the argument he keeps living inside.
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