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Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy
For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...
Just (don’t) do it: The power of being bored
Dare to let your mind wander. Consider leaving the phone at home occasionally. Spend focused time with a friend, in person, ...
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Column: Trump says he wants to end Russia's war on Ukraine. But he's acting like Putin's wingman
“In the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government … the United States has just switched sides,” Stanford democracy scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote. Sound ...
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Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...
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Why Were Hopes of the 1990s Dashed? for 02/14/2025
In the 1990s, it seemed to many that the vision of Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" would prevail. Not that bad things would never happen again. Fukuyama's more subtle thesis ...
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Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National ...
Opinion
Opinion: Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...