Friday, April 5, 2024

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

This book’s full title is simply Liberalism and Its Discontents. It is an interesting read. I found the last chapter, called Principles for a Liberal Society, the most interesting. I have always had both male and female friends. It seems to me that people who cannot be friends with the opposite sex, cannot see others as fellow humans first.

He is saying that America conservatives must accept the shifting demographics and social change. They will find that the new immigrants are not so different from older immigrants. We are all immigrants in North America. The left only accepts certain diversity, which refers to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. They need to accept other diversities as people are more than just members of a group.

Francis Fukuyama at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy talks about his book. He speaks for 30 minutes and then there is Q & A. For the Commonwealth Club there is a conversation between Tim Miller and Francis Fukuyama on YouTube . The introduction is over around 3.52 minutes and the conversation starts around 5.29 minutes in.

There is a long, interesting review by Seamus Flaherty on Quillette .

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