NeoCon Francis Fukuyama Live on In Depth, Sunday at Noon ET

Francis Fukuyama Live on In Depth, Sunday at Noon ET

This weekend on Book TV on C-SPAN2, join in a conversation with author and professor Francis Fukuyama as we talk about his life and work. Fukuyama has written many articles and books dealing with political and economic development, including the much-debated The End of History and the Last Man. His new book is America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He is also the director of the International Development Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, where he is also the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy

E-mail your questions to booktv@c-span.org, or call in during the live, three-hour program.

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Wiki bio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama#Biography

edit - added link to bio

DU'ers... Start your engines!!

Read up on this guy, one of the great neo-fascists of our time.

Call in and give him hell!!

I dare ya.

:popcorn:

with a name that reads on first glance "fuck yo mama"?

Poor man, no wonder he is cranky.

http://www.slate.com/id/2137134/

The End of Fukuyama
Why his latest pronouncements miss the mark.
By :puke: Christopher Hitchens
Posted Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at 6:59 AM ET

I have a feeling that last week was a disappointing one for Francis Fukuyama, whose essay "After Neoconservatism" (adapted from his upcoming book America at the Crossroads) was awarded seven pages in the Feb. 19 New York Times Magazine. The anti-Danish mayhem that had been dominating the news was surpassed by the fantastic criminality and sacrilege in Samarra, and nobody seemed to have time for the best-advertised defection from the neocon ranks. This, I think, is a pity, since the essay exhibits several points of interest.

However, it must also be said that Fukuyama himself made it hard for people to concentrate on his words. There appears to be an arsenal of clichés and stock expressions located somewhere inside his word processor, so that he has only to touch the keyboard for one of them to spring abruptly onto the page. Thus, in the first paragraph, we are told that Iraq has become "a magnet" for jihadists, later that democracy-promotion has been attacked both from the left and (gasp) the right, later that neocons have issues with "overreaching," and soon after that "it is not an accident" that many neoconservatives started out as "Trotskyites."

Not everyone will appreciate the unironic beauty of those last two formulations; they will appeal most to the few who are connoisseurs of leftist sectarianism. The opening words, "It is no accident, comrades," used to be the dead giveaway of a wooden Stalinist hack (who would also make use of the deliberately diminishing term Trotskyite instead of Trotskyist). And these nuances matter, because Fukuyama now tells us that the book that made him famous, The End of History and the Last Man (1992), "presented a kind of Marxist argument for the existence of a long-term process of social evolution, but one that terminates in liberal democracy rather than communism." Alas, the purity of his Marxism was soon to be corrupted by the likes of William Kristol and Robert Kagan, whose position was "by contrast, Leninist; they believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States." Pause to note, then, that even the advocate of the new foreign-policy "realism" feels compelled to borrow the most overused anti-Hegelian line from Karl Marx's 18th Brumaire.

more....(if you can stand Hitchens)

When his own are sooooo worn out? :puke:

...instead of advancing their position in a positive way.

I couldn't get very far. Hitchens sure is bitter about his life, obviously. His trash talking Fukuyama almost made me like the guy. Now I just feel icky.