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Stanford Professor Fukuyama on Today’s Extremist Ideology

Thursday, September 17, 2026


Francis Fukuyama, a Stanford professor, wrote in a 1989 essay that liberal democracy would prevail over communism but that its supporters might lose the "courage, imagination and idealism" associated with ideological conflict. Fukuyama appeared on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss how his thinking has changed since the Cold War's end and what is driving ideology today.

Original reporting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-17/stanford-professor-fukuyama-on-today-s-extremist-ideology

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