Jay Elwes

Has liberalism destroyed itself?

Francis Fukuyama explores the irony of how the great liberal ideal, pushed to extremes, has resulted in today’s illiberal identity politics

The new strain of illiberalism is traced back to Herbert Marcuse, whose 1964 book One Dimensional Man has much to answer for. [Getty Images]

  • Liberalism and its Discontents

    Francis Fukuyama

    Profile Books, pp. 192, £16

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