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Ben Sixsmith
Oct 17, 2022
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Okay, I admit it. I’m one of the people who thought Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man had made the case that conflict and chaos had essentially ended. No, I hadn’t read it. I was peddling second-hand prejudices.

So, I didn’t know that Fukuyama had said, for example, “we have no guarantee and can­ not assure future generations that th…

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