Liberalism and Its Discontents

‘Urgent and timely … A vital strength of this slim, elegant book is that it is crystalline in its definitions, even while acknowledging the complexities of practice … A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves’ - Andrew Anthony‘One of the west’s most interesting public intellectuals … he is always worth reading as a writer prepared to recalibrate and develop his thinking’ - Iain Martin‘Transformative … Maybe now, as Europe sees its most brutal war since 1945, we are ready to heed what Fukuyama was trying to tell us all along’ - Matthew d’Ancona‘Books have poured out lately on liberalism’s failings and how democracies break down. Among the diagnosticians, none is more eminent or experienced than Francis Fukuyama … Hard to think of a better case for liberal centrism’ - Edmund Fawcett‘Fukuyama succeeds in his explaining his objections to identity politics with great clarity and concreteness’ - Iain MacWhirter

Francis Fukuyama is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and George Mason University, alongside serving as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and Deputy Director for the State Department’s policy planning staff. His six previous books were also published by Profile.