Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
Marc Andreessen is a venture capitalist.
18. Three books on the philosophical underpinnings of our time: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History by James Nichols Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tom Nichols is a contributor to the Atlantic.
Over 30 years after Hoffer said it, Fukuyama saw it coming in this passage from "The End of History and the Last Man" - and that I warned again was happening last year in "Our Own Worst Enemy" H/t @WindsorMann https://t.co/cYYjz0MZXd
Steven Sinofsky is a former tech executive and VC.
12/ The End of History and the Last Man https://t.co/0ToDit41Dz by Francis Fukuyama from 2006. It became trendy to use a few examples to disprove FF’s whole thesis, but only if you had not really read the book. It seems to hold up even better these days.
-- George Gilder, The Washington Post Book World
-- Charles Krauthammer
-- William H. McNeill, The New York Times Book Review
-- Ronald Steel, USA Today
-- Mackubin Thomas Owens, The Washington Times