Liberalism and Its Discontents

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and senior fellow at Stanford, discusses the failure of classical liberalism to live up to its ideals, the resulting challenges to liberalism from left and right, and how liberalism can be modernized for the 21st century. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xmtDwNqo5QU Liberalism and Its Discontents - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374606718/liberalismanditsdiscontents Follow Francis Fukuyama: https://twitter.com/fukuyamafrancis | https://francisfukuyama.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	despite all of the plain inequalities that exist,
0:06.0	which situation is better.
0:07.3	And I just think that the progress that has been made
0:11.3	towards those ideals is undeniable.
0:15.9	But that doesn't mean that you then say,
0:18.1	well, but everything is great.
0:19.5	And that's not worried about existing injustices.
0:23.6	What you do as a liberal is you say,
0:26.0	yes, we're still not fully living up to those ideals.
0:28.8	And so we need to go ahead and correct them.
0:30.6	But our society is correctable.
0:33.3	And we can use policy and politics to make changes
0:38.5	to make things better.
0:39.6	It is my privilege to welcome to forward political science,
1:05.6	H.D. from Harvard University, senior fellow at Stanford.
1:10.4	Now, in the author of 10 books,
1:12.2	including his latest liberalism and its discintence,
1:16.6	Frank Fukuyama, Francis Fukuyama, technically.
1:20.1	Welcome, Frank. How are you?
1:22.2	Very good, Angie.
1:23.0	Thanks very much for having me on.
1:25.3	It's a pleasure.
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