Right and left Hegelians. 1989 and the global triumph of liberalism. Science and the satisfaction of creaturely desires. Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut. For and against the consumer society. Taking modernist fascism seriously. Plato and the three-part soul. The importance of thymos. Hegel and Alexandre Kojève. Hegel’s parable of the master and the slave at the beginning of history. Left and right critics of liberal capitalism. Nietzsche and the last man. Neoconservatism as the supplementation of liberalism with illiberalism. A Fukuyaman defense of the autonomy of art. Fukuyama as artist and literary stylist. The rise of technocracy and the end of liberal democracy. The Great Reset vs. The End of History? Our advice to disaffected radical left- and right-wing youth.
Note: my essay on Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man.
Ep. 9. The End of History