“One of the leading public intellectuals of our time,” (The New York Times Book Review), Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. A former senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, he has served as deputy director in the State Department’s policy planning staff, and captured international attention with his bestselling book The End of History and the Last Man. His new book is the second volume of his bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state, following the story from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring and contemporary American politics. 

In conversation with Michael Lind, Policy Director, Economic Growth Program, New American Foundation