Francis Fukuyama

“The End of History?” was an announcement of victory. But a quarter-century later, its author remains unsure if liberalism truly won.

Francis Fukuyama pines for that old-time liberalism.

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

Remember Perot?

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

John Ganz offers a whirlwind tour of the cranks, conservatives, and con artists who helped remake the American right at the turn of the 21st century.

In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment.

The struggle for progress is always two steps forward and at least one step back.

A political history of the present moment.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.