The End of History

<p>Francis Fukuyama&apos;s &quot;The End of History and the Last Man&quot; changed political discourse forever. Peter and Michael peel back his muddled history and fluffy rhetoric, revealing several more layers of muddled history and fluffy rhetoric.</p><p><a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'><b>Support us on Patreon</b></a><b>: </b><a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'><b>https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod</b></a><b><br/><br/>Where to find us: </b></p><ul><li><a href='https://twitter.com/IfBooksPod'>Twitter</a></li><li><a href='https://www.fivefourpod.com/'>Peter&apos;s other podcast, 5-4</a></li><li><a href='https://www.maintenancephase.com/'>Mike&apos;s other podcast, Maintenance Phase</a></li></ul><p><b>Sources:</b></p><ul><li>Reflections on the End of History, Five Years Later (<a href='https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505433'>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505433</a>)</li><li>More Proof That This Really Is the End of History (<a href='https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/'>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/</a>)</li><li>Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History (<a href='https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/francis-fukuyama-postpones-the-end-of-history'>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/francis-fukuyama-postpones-the-end-of-history</a>)</li><li>Endism: why 1989 was not the &apos;end of history&apos; (<a href='https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/endism/'>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/endism/</a>)</li><li>The End of the End of History (<a href='https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/maximillian-alvarez-end-end-history/'>https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/maximillian-alvarez-end-end-history/</a>)</li><li>It&apos;s Still Not the End of History (<a href='https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/its-still-not-the-end-of-history-francis-fukuyama/379394/'>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/its-still-not-the-end-of-history-francis-fukuyam