Why Nothing Works

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

The Ezra Klein Show, 11 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 19 min in.

Fukuyama recommends Marc Dunkelman's book for placing current governance failures in a longer historical arc—a pendulum between Jeffersonian devolution of power and a Hamiltonian vision of government as the engine of change—and arguing the United States has been stuck in a Jeffersonian period since the 1960s and needs to swing back toward the Hamiltonian perspective.

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