What Francis Fukuyama thinks about America
American political scientist, author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and the memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (2026); Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. Writes the Frankly Fukuyama column at Persuasion.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Francis Fukuyama has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsPainful experience with inflation has taught the United States and other countries around the world that central banks must be made independent.
↗Trump Has Revolutionized Executive Powerpersuasion.community 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBut the elimination of a professional civil service will open up vast new areas for corrupt behavior in every city and county in the United States.
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Their wordsMy suspicion is that we will indeed need a specialized regulator, because AI is a sector very different from other parts of the economy.
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