Dr Pohl complains about Francis Fukuyama's disappointing talk and the "magical realism" neocons promote

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/books/review/francis-fukuyama-identity-kwame-anthony-appiah-the-lies-that-bind.html is what the New York Times wants us to think of these co-opted philosophers. I have crossed swords with Appiah at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2016/11/gay-black-man-kwame-anthony-appiah-says.html

Fukuyama is discussed from 5:30

9:20  The Whig Interpretation of History

11:00  No historian would have given the Whig Interpretation of History any credence. It is a stupid political scientist idea.

12:00  Academics are the worst people on earth in terms of understanding the arguments of the other side. They are extraordinarily parochial and narrow-minded.

19:00  Democracy means zilch. We need to get away from worshipping democracy. Liberal democracy, like Pan-Arabism is going to fail, and fail hard.