Last Man Problems | Richard Hanania and Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama joins the podcast to talk about In the Realm of the Last Man, his intellectual memoir. The conversation spans the spectrum of Fukayuma’s work, with topics including the decline of public intellectuals, the Iraq War, the rise of populism, postmodernism, China as a low-trust society, and the difficulties faced by Latin America. Hanania and Fukuyama express disagreements on genetic engineering, embryo selection, and radical life extension. Fukuyama reflects on his time in government and why he ended up concluding that he was more suited for the scholarly life.