Francis Fukuyama
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Francis Fukuyama is a renowned public intellectual best known for his work on democracy and political development. This interview reveals his visionary perspective on the trajectory of global politics and the need for robust democratic systems in the face of rising authoritarianism.
“I think a lot of the stuff that Modi has done is very destructive of liberal values, but how far he can push that, I'm not quite sure. Donald Trump, I think, is a very unique threat.”
“These were both countries where the state had collapsed. Rory knows this from personal experience walking across Afghanistan, stateless society in many respects. And it suddenly dawned on me that especially Americans take the state for granted.”
“Bank, President Biden all pile on attacking them. And I think that I've had a lot of democracy activist friends because we cultivate a big network of them from a lot of the global south that are saying, yes, we understand, you know, you have to treat gays and lesbians and transgender people equally you shouldn't discriminate.”
“Now biotech, I actually wrote a whole book about this in the early 2000s because I think that in the end it has a much bigger capacity to shape society than digital technology. So I was wrong about the digital part.”
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