He is currently a professor at Stanford University.
He earned his PhD at Harvard and then worked at the RAND Corporation and the Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department. He also advocates trust in government, federalism or subsidiarity (in the sense of decision-making at the lowest appropriate level).įukuyama studied at Cornell University. His latest book, “Liberalism and Its Discontents” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), is a defense of classical liberalism, a reckoning with the neoliberal dream of the small state, populist conservatism and the identitarian left. In 2020, he published a series of conversations with Mathilde Fasting, “After the End of History,” which was reviewed by our editor Ferenc Laczo. In this way he wanted to show the danger of the end of history: “the last man” is a term referring to the moment when the human race loses its drive, its purpose. The subtitle of the book – “The Last Man” – is a Nietzschean term that Fukuyama used on the advice of Allan Bloom (who was also his professor at Cornell University). Fukuyama was no liberal-democratic Candide. “The End of History” was, of course, not about the end of history understood as a series of events, but about the fact that liberal democracy had become the highest form of modern politics as it rather successfully ensured peace and prosperity for a relatively large part of the world, while all alternatives – especially communism – failed spectacularly. After the essay was published, he worked on a book developing his ideas on the same subject, which was published three years later. When he published his essay in the National Interest (a center-right intellectual magazine), he was a mandarin employed by Republican administrations. “The End of History,” the title of Francis Fukuyama’s essay published in the summer of 1989, brought him fame and was also his curse, as it was often deeply misunderstood. There are few people whose image is so strongly associated with a single catchphrase.
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