Francis Fukuyama on the World in 2025

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In a tour d'horizon, Yascha and Frank discuss the fall of Assad, the rise of China, the crisis in Europe, and what awaits the United States under Trump. Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist, author, and the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Among Fukuyama’s notable works are The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order. His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents. He is also the author of the “Frankly Fukuyama” column, carried forward from American Purpose, at Persuasion. He is a member of Persuasion’s Board of Advisors. In this week's conversation, Yascha and Frank discuss Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's flawed plans for reforming the federal bureaucracy (and how to actually reform it); why crises in France and Germany bode ill for Europe; and what the public reaction to the assassination of Brian Thompson says about healthcare in America. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	One fact that people don't understand is that we have the same number of federal bureaucrats
0:37.2	today that we did back in
0:39.3	1969.
0:40.3	It's about 2.3 million.
0:42.3	And so the bureaucracy has not been growing like topsy.
0:46.3	What has been happening is that in order to say that we're keeping the bureaucracy down,
0:51.3	we've been turning over massive amounts of work that used to be done by bureaucrats to contractors
0:58.0	who are less accountable, cost more, and ultimately expand the size of government.
1:05.0	And so actually, if you want to reduce the size of government, you ought to go after those contractors way before you go after the bureaucrats themselves.
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