![]() ![]() Many people feel democracy has not delivered for them. And that impulse struggles against the drive for an open society. In our time, he says, many of us feel the pull of taking part in tribal societies. Twenty-eight years later, Fukuyama sees a new wave of history. INSKEEP: So communism lost, liberal democracy won. And I simply made the observation that if we're going to evolve to anything, we were going to evolve to a liberal democracy tied to a market economy. INSKEEP: Just as the Cold War was about to end, as the Soviet Union was about to collapse, in 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote "The End Of History."įRANCIS FUKUYAMA: For the previous 150 years, Marxists had been saying that there is such a thing as a progressive history and where it's leading us to is communism. And we begin with a man who authored a famous idea of modern history. So in days to come, we will explore the history of our time. and big elections abroad from Turkey to France to Germany and beyond. Today we begin writing the latest draft of history. ![]()
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