Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

SAIS Hosted Book Launch Event With Francis Fukuyama on April 25
Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University; Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest; Michael Woolcock, lead social development specialist for the World Bank's Development Research Group; and Cinnamon Dornsife (moderator), acting director of the SAIS International Development Program, discussed Fukuyama's new book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution.

[@lesilluminations1]

True galaxy brain.

[@cameronmichaelkeys]

I'm convinced Fukuyama uses cognitive enhancement biotechnologies. Impressive, even manic, but so reasonable.

[@Cordialis]

@EZkill25l7 Thanks. I was very surprised to see a university using undated sources. Way out of line there...

[@Cordialis]

What year was this lecture, please? This April or is it older than that?

[@synon9m]

to this day, no one knows

[@sash2600]

Ashoka, one of the Mauryan kings, ruled over a vast area of the Indian subcontinent for some period. So Maurya was not a transgenerational pan Indian empire. The Guptas were chiefly one of the northern Indian kingdoms, and no serious historian would call them a pan-Indian empire. The Mughals, by all accounts, had a pan-Indian empire spanning generations. So the only thing I knew well, this guy got all wrong. And that makes me wonder how accurate his story of the Chinese and Europeans is. This happens when you start building grand theories spanning the entire world and millennia. The fact that you're not even a historian also doesn't help.

[@fringeelements]

Somalia isn't a failed state. It's a stateless society that has actually improved but is harassed by imposter UN-backed govts and muslim fanatics. Somalia has improved in spite of interventionist busybodies doing all the damage they can trying to "get them to denmark".