


Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review - history didn’t end, so what next for liberals?, The Times (March 12, 2022).Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon, The Guardian (March 8, 2022).Liberalism and Its Discontents, Kirkus Reviews (March 1, 2022).In this short, clear account of our current political discontents, Fukuyama offers an essential defense of a revitalized liberalism for the twenty-first century. The result, Fukuyama argues, has been a fracturing of our civil society and an increasing peril to our democracy. As the renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama shows in Liberalism and Its Discontents, the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left: neoliberals made a cult of economic freedom, and progressives focused on identity over human universality as central to their political vision.
