What Comes After the End of History? with Francis Fukuyama (Part One)

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Sep 10, 202636:00Society & Culture

Francis Fukuyama is one of the most influential political thinkers of our time. His famous 1989 essay, The End of History? – written as the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed – posed a provocative idea: that Wester...

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