Sublime

In the summer of 1989, as it became clear the United States and its allies had won the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay titled ‘The End of History?’ for the National Interest. Its core proposition was provocative yet simple, with the little-known academic asserting that the collapse of the Soviet Union was of greater importance than simply

Time had moved on, or maybe it had stopped—that was the era of The End of History and the Last Man, the 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, who declared the triumph of Western liberal democracy.