Francis Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of American Purpose.
Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and director of the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy program at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Fukuyama’s most recent book is Liberalism and Its Discontents (2022), building off his American Purpose foundational article of the same name. His two-volume analysis of political order—The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay—appeared in 2011 and 2014. Other books include Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018), Our Posthuman Future (2000), The Great Disruption (1999), and Trust (1995).
His book The End of History and the Last Man (1992) has appeared in over twenty foreign editions.
Why Public Administration?
Our professional bureaucracy is a bulwark against the potential incompetence and corruption of elected officials. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians
Proceduralism is crippling the U.S. government, but both Democrats and Republicans are fearful of the solution. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
Honoring Navalny
Francis Fukuyama on Alexei Navalny and how Americans can honor his legacy.
Liberal Practice: Rules for Speech on Campus
Attacks on free speech at universities are a serious issue, but government-led efforts to restrict free thought remain a larger concern. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
Not a Serious Country
American foreign policy has fallen prey to domestic politics with devastating results for the future world order. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
What's Wrong with Liberalism: Theory
The shift from classical liberalism into "woke" liberalism isn't inevitable–and can be reversed. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
Economies of Scale, Part III: Power, Inequality, and Dependence
Living in the modern world entails having our lives shaped by economies of scale. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
Economies of Scale, Part II: The Division of Labor
Clockmaking's surprising history and the role of labor in transforming community into society. Part II of Francis Fukuyama's new series.