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Stanford Professor Fukuyama on Today’s Extremist Ideology

Bloomberg Markets Thursday 17 September 2026, 14:06 UTC 1 min read
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Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay “The End of History?” argued that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might miss the “courage, imagination and idealism” that defined the ideological battle. The Stanford professor joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how his argument has evolved since the end of the Cold War and what's driving today's extremist ideology.

Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay “The End of History?” argued that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might miss the “courage, imagination and idealism” that defined the ideological battle. The Stanford professor joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how his argument has evolved since the end of the Cold War and what's driving today's extremist ideology. (Source: Bloomberg)
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