

True, he worked in the Reagan administration and ran with the Bill Kristol/Commentary crowd.


Reading his tremendous new book The Origins of Political Order is a reminder of how poorly Fukuyama ever wore the neo-conservative label. But “The End of History” has overshadowed everything he has published since, which is unfortunate because Fukuyama has quietly amassed a portfolio of writing that ranks him as among America’s best public intellectuals. Along with the expanded book-version, the essay remains exciting and challenging more than two decades after it was first written. Francis Fukuyama became famous for his essay “The End of History,” published in the journal The National Interest in 1989.
