Francis Fukuyama

What Happened to the Generation Gap?

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, Pop Music, Beethoven, The End of History, Music Eras, Teen Rebellion, The Beatles, 80s Pop Music, Francis Fukuyama, Miles Davis, Rammstein, Madonna, Wham, George Michael, Heart, Lady GaGa, The Eurythmics, Culture News

Why are teenagers listening to music that their parents were dancing to 25 years ago instead of rebelling against it? When I was 13, I may have had some knowledge of pop stars from a quarter century earlier, but I certainly didn't like any of their music.

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, American Exceptionalism, Turner Thesis, Rugged Conformists, Walter Huston, Cooperstown, Amish, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whiskey Rebellion, Theodore Roosevelt, Manhood at Harvard, Alexis De Tocqueville, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Gary Cooper, Jean-Paul Sartre, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Humphrey Bogart, Emma Lazarus, William James, B. Traven, Trust, The Moral Equivalent of War, Kim Townsend, Natty Bumppo, Barack Obama, John Huston, Rugged Individualism, Hawkeye, Francis Fukuyama, High Noon, Reading Terminal Market, Self-Reliance, Autarky, Deerslayer, Mind, Religion News

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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Fukuyama's Recipe for the Poor Populist Left

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Robert Teitelman, Stanford University, Francis Fukuyama, Peter Drucker, Media News

Francis Fukuyama has an essay at Foreign Affairs that is indubitably Fukuyama-esque. The subject is large and it's spun forward into the future, where no hypothesis can immediately be tested.

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The New Marx

John Feffer | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Francis Fukuyama, Newt Gingrich, Karl Marx, Occupy Wall Street, World News

If the house organs of the financial sector and the house intellectuals of the Right are all talking like a Marxist study group, then perhaps we are on the verge of a major transformation -- not only in terminology but, more importantly, in the facts on the ground.

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The Middle Class and Election 2012

Richard Geldard | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, U.S. Economy, Middle-Class Society, Francis Fukuyama, Election 2012, Progressive Agenda, Middle Class, Politics News

A Left-leaning agenda is progressive in human relationships, attentive to the environment and determined in opportunity for everyone. Nothing less will succeed, and we certainly cannot go back to some Tea Party longing for the past. Nostalgia is not an option.

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Neoconservatism Isn't Dead -- In Fact, It's Prepping For A Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: George Bush, George Bush Neoconservatives, 2012 Elections, The End of History, Michael Rubin, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama, Vulcans, Rick Perry, Dick Cheney, Gop Foreign Policy, Video, 2012 Election, Condoleezza Rice, Isolationism, Elliot Abrams, GOP Debates, Dov Zakheim, Doug Feith, Colin Powell, Gop 2012, Mitt Romney, Francis Fukuyama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, GOP Candidates, Foreign Policy, Herman Cain, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Politics News

The Republican Party is divided like never before on the issue of U.S. foreign policy, with rifts over foreign engagement, Pentagon budgeting and the ...

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Fukuyama's Plan to Fix Congress

Robert Teitelman | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: The Deal, Democracy, Financial TImes, Congress, Francis Fukuyama, Constitution, Congress Super Committee, Deficit Super Committee, Super Committee Fail, Politics News

Fukuyama is devoted to the Westminister model, which theoretically can produce a coherent plan but which, in the real world, seems to suffer, like any political mechanism, some stubborn problems.

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Occupy Wall Street Must End the Dictatorship - of Corporations

Roberto Lovato | Posted 12.07.2011

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Occupy Wall Street represents a Great Awakening to the need to rescue our free speech and other democratic spaces humiliated by Big Corporations that the Supreme Court protects legally; that the police protect physically; that the media protects culturally and that White House and Congress protect politically.

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Book Review Roundup: Obama's Mom's Bio And A Book About Heaven And Hell

Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: La Times Book Reviews, Book Review Roundup, Reviews, The Summer Without Men, Chris Adrian, Book Reviews, Janny Scott, A Singular Woman, The Great Night, Francis Fukuyama, Rob Bell, Ny Times Book Reviews, The Origins of Political Order, Love Wins, Books News

"The Summer Without Men" by Siri Hustvedt New York Times Hustvedt’s novels tend to be as somber as they are intellectually invigorating. Her g...

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Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Gulf War, Imf, European Union, Democracy, Francis Fukuyama, China, Capitalism, Japan, Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington, Indonesia, Apec, The-End-of-History, Nafta, Saudi Arabia, Liberalism, Group of 20, Russia, Cold War, Coming Anarchy, S., Paradigm Shift, U, World News

Scholars have long debated the direction that the "paradigm shift" in international relations would take. What would replace the obsolete bipolar international system and the strategic and ideological forces that had driven it?

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The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War

Andrew Bacevich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, US Military, Israel War, War, Israel Military, US Military Spending, Francis Fukuyama, 1967 War, Israel, Afghanistan War, World News

Although Western liberalism may retain considerable appeal, the Western way of war has run its course.

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Brookings Loses Bid on Orszag but Takes Kagan From Carnegie

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Think Tank All Stars, Council on Foreign Relations, Connie Bruck, Peter Orszag, Robert Kagan, New Yorker, Paul Wolfowitz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Elliott Abrams, Francis Fukuyama, Haim Saban, Martin Indyk, Brookings, David Frum, Ken Pollack, LeBron James, Politics News

Word has just reached us that Robert Kagan -- one of the top tier serious intellectuals among neoconservatives, and currently Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- is moving his franchise over to Brookings.

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Beijing Is Right -- Google Should Go

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Internet, Google China, Beijing, Authoritarianism, China, David Drummond, Michael Mandelbaum, Francis Fukuyama, Azar Gat, World News

Google is not charged with protecting the greater good of the Chinese citizenry. Beijing is entitled to ask Google to leave, and to take its democracy crusade with it.

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The End of History -- 20 Years Later

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Berlin Wall Anniversary, Democracy, Authoritarianism, Francis Fukuyama, Berlin Wall, World News

The fall of the Berlin Wall led Francis Fukuyama to famously declare "the end of history." Twenty years on, what does Fukuyama think about where history has gone since?

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Clinton Consulted With Republicans, Neocons On Big Foreign Policy Speech

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has consulted with a surprisingly diverse ideological bunch in the course of creating the major foreign policy spee...

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Obama's Recommended Bedtime Reading: Iranian-Israeli History

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Francis Fukuyama, Barack Obama, Trita Parsi, Treacherous Alliance, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barack Obama Iran, Obama Israel Iran, Israel Iran, Obama Israel, Advocacy, World News

Last night, after he had made a grocery-store run, helped put his two kids to bed, and answered reporters' phone calls about Washington's decision to ...

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Francis Fukuyama Endorses Obama

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neoconservatism, Fukuyama Endorses Obama, Barack Obama, Francis Fukuyama, American Conservative, Politics News

Francis Fukuyama, the prominent academic and an early intellectual defender of neoconservatism, endorses Barack Obama in the pages of the American Con...

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Francis Fukuyama: The Fall Of America, Inc

Newsweek | Francis Fukuyama | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Crisis, Wall St Crisis, Financial Crisis, Francis Fukuyama, Wall Street, Business News

The implosion of America's most storied investment banks. The vanishing of more than a trillion dollars in stock-market wealth in a day. A $700 billio...

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