In Pursuit of Development | 19 January 2021 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Francis Fukuyama on the dysfunction in U.S. politics, state-building, democracy and development, populism and institutional decay in the United States. Draws on his books Political Order and Political Decay, The End of History and the Last Man, and Identity.
The contempt in which academics generally hold President Trump, while largely merited, is a real stumbling block in understanding the politics he played too. Is it really useful to put him into a category with Putin and Erdogan, when he’s really more like Vince McMahon?