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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: What Liberalism and Its Discontents Gets So Wrong
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Liberalism and Its Discontents, a recent book by the well-known political scientist Francis Fukuyama. They analyze the book’s main claims and argumentation, and evaluate Fukuyama’s defense of liberalism.
Among the topics covered:
Fukuyama and his famous “end of history” thesis;Recent attacks on liberalism as the context of Liberalism and Its Discontents;Different meanings of the term “liberalism” in the U.S., Europe, and Fukuyama’s book;How Fukuyama’s failure to argue from a principled philosophical framework renders his defense of liberalism unconvincing;Ayn Rand’s argument...