Liberalism and Its Discontents

Why I Can't Stop Thinking About 'The End of History'

The Ezra Klein Show, 11 September 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 41 min 54 sec in.

Ezra Klein brings up Fukuyama's 2021 book and its call for temperance and moderation as the cure for liberalism's ailments, then presses him on an apparent contradiction: in the same conversation Fukuyama advocates eliminating the filibuster and having progressives act more like Trump in order to overcome procedural gridlock—positions Klein argues people do not experience as moderate.

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