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Francis Fukuyama
February 18, 2025
Michael A. Cohen
Francis Fukuyama Was Right About Liberal Democracy
For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously challenge it.
October 19, 2023
MagazineJordan Michael Smith
Samuel Huntington’s Great Idea Was Totally Wrong
His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.
December 30, 2020
MagazineWin McCormack
Getting to Denmark
Reclaiming the Lutheran spirit of social democracy
January 23, 2020
Jacob Heilbrunn
The Neocons Strike Back
How a discredited foreign policy ideology continues to wreak havoc in Washington and around the world
November 21, 2019
MagazineWin McCormack
Fukuyama’s Inner Civic Republicanism (Part 2)
Rethinking liberal triumphalism—and its limitations
October 17, 2019
MagazineWin McCormack
Fukuyama’s Inner Civic Republicanism (Part 1)
The end of history, 30 years on
March 10, 2014
Francis Fukuyama
American Power Is Waning Because Washington Won't Stop Quarreling
November 9, 2011
John Gray
The Triumphalist
May 19, 2011
Joshua Kurlantzick
The Great Democracy Meltdown
March 17, 2010
James Mann
Behold China
April 23, 2008
Robert Kagan
The End of the End of History
July 2, 2007
Sam Tanenhaus
The End of the Journey
April 5, 2007
The New Republic Staff
Fukuyama, Continued
August 28, 2006
Spencer Ackerman
Reality Bites
December 18, 1995
Andrew Marr
Vanity Blair
December 18, 1995
Andrew Marr
Vanity Blair
December 11, 1994
Michael Lewis
The Case Against ‘Abroad’

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