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Friday essay: some tech leaders think AI could outsmart us and wipe out humanity. I’m a professor of AI – and I’m not worried

In 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama predicted we were approaching the end of history. He meant that similar liberal democratic values were taking hold in societies around the world. How wrong could he have been? Democracy today is clearly on the decline. Despots and autocrats are on the rise.

The Conversation

Amid a global loss of trust, institutions must prove their value

What institutions do Americans trust the most? Businesses, according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer.

Fortune

Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age?

Lack of faith in political leaders is leading the socially disaffected to be seduced by violence

The Guardian - UK

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Why she lost — and what we do now

Anti-incumbency fervor, populist rage and elite disconnection — all facets of the same global democratic crisis

Salon

Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates

France is the latest country to capitulate to the demands of a poisonous, populist narrative. We need a progressive fightback, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

Person Asks Online “What Country Has The Craziest Rebranding Ever And Why?”, Gets 27 Responses

27 times in world history when a single country made a 180° turn in its development, according to members of this online group. The post Person Asks Online “What Country Has The Craziest Rebranding Ever And Why?”, Gets 27 Responses first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda

Elon Musk is ‘going full MAGA’, famed author says

In a post on X, Mr Musk appeared to express sympathies towards Donald Trump

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Stan Grant's new book asks: how do we live with the weight of our history?

This month, journalist and public intellectual Stan Grant published his fifth book, The Queen is Dead. And last week, he abruptly stepped away from his career in the public realm, citing toxic racism enabled by social media, and betrayal on the part of his employer, the ABC.

The Conversation

2022: The Year the Good Guys Struck Back

After years of rising authoritarianism and xenophobic populism, democracy is strengthening. But a long struggle lies ahead.

Foreign Policy

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: This Netflix show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

The Crown season five review: Part Tatler gossip column, part family psychodrama, this show is the definition of first world problems

The drama was initially intended as a piece of historical fiction, but the longer it has gone on, the more tawdry it’s become

The Independent UK

Understanding the rise of 'new nationalism'

The euphoria after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was not just about what Francis Fukuyama called an "unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism". It was also about the decline of nationalism.

Bangkok Post

Beyond Putinism: Ukraine war commentary shows how Hegelian binaries run into blind spots

There are points of ferment in world politics when one is tempted to define the zeitgeist of the current or the emerging world order. Many times the tumult is cast in a way that it takes the form of a Hegelian contest of ideas and the systems representing them; sometimes…

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Salon

Fukuyama: We can still save democracy

The man who brought us "The End of History" says America faces long-term "political decay," but it's not too late

The Guardian - UK

The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman review – democracy muscled out?

This chilling examination of how the growing popularity of autocrats and their aspirants could upend western liberal values is forceful and timely

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Exit stage left Meghan, and enter Camilla as new National Theatre patron

In today’s Diary: Britain’s theatre scene glitters at the National Theatre / Rathbone’s Folio judges know how to celebrate / Rylance remembers meeting Bob Dylan / Francis Fukuyama suffers the never-ending end of history

Newsroom.co.nz

Oliver Hartwich: The West is back

The weakened West might now have found a cause to unite strongly around liberal democracy, writes Oliver Hartwich

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Commentary: Why so many countries want to sit out the new cold war

“Democracies are rising to the moment,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, as Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed his vicious war on Ukraine. Francis Fukuyama leads a band of commentators claiming that the “spirit of 1989” is back and we are about to witness…

Evening Standard

We always knew the end of history wasn’t the final act for tyrants like Vladimir Putin

I am a member of Generation Fukuyama. Well, how could I not be? I turned 21 in 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell, triggering the implosion of the Soviet bloc and the end of the Cold War. It was an astonishing moment of emancipation, a colossal release of…

The Independent UK

Francis Fukuyama says Russian defeat in Ukraine will ‘make possible a new birth of freedom’

Author and Stanford University fellow says Vladimir Putin is headed for an ‘outright defeat’

The Guardian - UK

Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon

In this slim, elegant book, the author of The End of History outlines with crystalline precision why the liberal spirit, for all its qualities, cannot grow complacent

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