Francis Fukuyama
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
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Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory. Owner of
@americanpurpose.bsky.social
The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
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The Good Fight Club: Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Sabina Ćudić, and Dan Williams react to this week’s news.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yaschamounk/p/the-good-fight-club-6?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 days ago
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Our Coming Plutocracy
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Our Coming Plutocracy
A new episode of the Frankly Fukuyama podcast!
https://www.persuasion.community/p/our-coming-plutocracy-02c?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 days ago
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Human Drivers Are Becoming Obsolete
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Human Drivers Are Becoming Obsolete
The rise of the robotaxi.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/human-drivers-are-becoming-obsolete?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 days ago
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Humphrey's Executor to go on the chopping block in Dec:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/supreme-court-ftc-commissioner-firing.html?smid=url-share
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Dictators don’t have a sense kf humor:
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25 Years Ago, Russia Had Its Own Kimmel Moment
Why a puppet show could predict America’s future.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/25-years-ago-russia-had-its-own-kimmel?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Astonishing hypocrisy:
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Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court
He should sue the Trump administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/18/jimmy-kimmel-supreme-court-first-amendment-lawsuit-00570697
9 days ago
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Elon Musk and the Ellisons are consolidating American plutocracy:
youtu.be/2wetEKGZdUo
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Our Coming Plutocracy
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/2wetEKGZdUo
10 days ago
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Our coming plutocracy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wet...
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Our Coming Plutocracy
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wetEKGZdUo
12 days ago
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Title IX from Biden to Trump: From Retribution to Regulatory Regime
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From Retribution to Regulatory Regime
The Trump administration has learned from earlier mistakes in its education policies.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/from-retribution-to-regulatory-regime?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
13 days ago
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Jake Broe
14 days ago
Ukraine struck Russia's second largest oil refinery last night and completely knocked offline Russia's oil terminal on the Baltic Sea. Mass disruptions at fuel stations are causing panic in Russia and 66% of Russians polled are now willing to publicly say they want the war in Ukraine to end.
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66% of Russians Say They Want War to End Today
YouTube video by Jake Broe
https://youtu.be/ec4V7cE_Ix8
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Francis Fukuyama
FSI Stanford
16 days ago
"Stronger community and citizenship can pave the way for building infrastructure, while infrastructure can help to build community. It is a middle path by which liberalism can build things once again," writes
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
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Abundance Is a Vehicle For Community
Why investing in infrastructure can bolster a healthy liberalism.
https://ow.ly/J9IP50WUT1j
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Your regular invitation to subscribe to my Frankly Fukuyama YouTube channel:
youtu.be/oJAWurfGoVw
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Resisting the Maduro Dictatorship in Venezuela
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/oJAWurfGoVw
15 days ago
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The Wanton Destruction of American Power
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The Wanton Destruction of American Power
Trump’s team promised restraint. Instead, they’re taking a sledgehammer to U.S. influence abroad.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-wanton-destruction-of-american?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
16 days ago
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Iran: Survival Over Defection
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Survival Over Defection
Why Iran’s military elites stay loyal.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/survival-over-defection?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
16 days ago
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Resisting the Maduro dictatorship:
youtu.be/oJAWurfGoVw
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Resisting the Maduro Dictatorship in Venezuela
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/oJAWurfGoVw
18 days ago
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Abundance Is a Vehicle For Community
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Abundance Is a Vehicle For Community
Why investing in infrastructure can bolster a healthy liberalism.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/abundance-is-a-vehicle-for-community?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
18 days ago
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The Wanton Destruction of American Power
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The Wanton Destruction of American Power
Trump’s team promised restraint. Instead, they’re taking a sledgehammer to U.S. influence abroad.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-wanton-destruction-of-american?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
19 days ago
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Indonesia’s Explosive Week
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Indonesia’s Explosive Week
The unrest was tinged with memories of the 1998 riots.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/indonesias-explosive-week?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
20 days ago
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reposted by
Francis Fukuyama
New Liberals 🌐
23 days ago
The legendary
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
will be joining us at this year’s New Liberal Action Summit! He’ll be joining us for a discussion on the future of the center-left, at a time when liberal democracy is under threat from the populist right in every corner of the globe.
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The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings at the CDC
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The Good Fight Club: The “Trump Is Dead” Conspiracy, the Big Summit Between Xi, Putin and Modi, and Firings at the CDC
Yascha Mounk, Francis Fukuyama, Mona Charen, and Russell Muirhead tackle this week’s big news.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yaschamounk/p/the-good-fight-club-the-trump-is?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
24 days ago
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On firing Lisa Cook: Can Trump Do That?
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Can Trump Do That?
What firing members of the Fed means for America.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/can-trump-do-that?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
26 days ago
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reposted by
Francis Fukuyama
The UnPopulist
27 days ago
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA (
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
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Why Courts Can't Save America From This President
Our system has depended on norms, not laws, against the abuse of executive power and those are outside the scope of the judicial branch
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/why-courts-cant-save-america-from
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Francis Fukuyama
Andy Langenkamp
about 1 month ago
3 categories of bad things are happening: 1) Unconstitutional things—like birthright citizenship 2) Things that are illegal where you’ve got a statute that says you can’t fire somebody except under these conditions 3) A big category of things that are just bad governance
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Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere)
A very insightful—and sobering—LibCon2025 panel on the state of our constitutional democracy, featuring @Francis Fukuyama, @Ruth Marcus, @Jack Goldsmith, and @Benjamin Wittes. Here is the whole thing...
https://substack.com/@bernybelvedere/note/c-147365768?r=ifpt&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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What a bunch of incompetents:
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Why Steve Witkoff Is Trump’s Master of Disaster
The helpless envoy embodies everything that is dysfunctional about current U.S. foreign policy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/19/steve-witkoff-trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-diplomacy/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=c3RldmUtd2l0a29mZi10cnVtcC1wdXRpbi1ydXNzaWEtdWtyYWluZS13YXItZGlwbG9tYWN5&pid=OC6360857
about 1 month ago
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Bringing Human Nature Back In
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Bringing Human Nature Back In
Francis Fukuyama in the latest of our series “Why Liberalism.”
https://www.persuasion.community/p/bringing-human-nature-back-in?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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The limits (and promise) of future AI:
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AI Beyond the Hype: An Interview with Jerry Kaplan
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/g6UsKANyqf8
about 2 months ago
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Can Trump Escape the Epstein Files?
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Can Trump Escape the Epstein Files?
Conspiracy theories have become an essential part of being a conservative.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/can-trump-escape-the-epstein-files?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Great piece: The Woke Right Stands At the Door
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The Woke Right Stands At the Door
Whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-woke-right-stands-at-the-door?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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The Revenge Presidency
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The Revenge Presidency
Trump’s campaign against his perceived enemies is just beginning.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-revenge-presidency?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Will the United States Push Russia Out of the South Caucasus?
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Will the United States Push Russia Out of the South Caucasus?
Putin is losing his hold over traditional allies.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/will-the-united-states-push-russia?r=4e6dp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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The long decline of democracy in Turkey:
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The Decline of Democracy in Turkey
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/jB-5jPBQn_Q
about 2 months ago
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Francis Fukuyama
American Purpose
about 2 months ago
"Americans have taken the existence of a modern state for granted and know how to complain about it. Now they are getting what they thought they wanted."
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
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What’s Happening to the “Deep State”?
Assaults on American state capacity are gaining steam.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/whats-happening-to-the-deep-state
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Three Pillars of Human Discourse (and How Social Media Middleware Can Support All Three) | TechPolicy.Press
Human discourse is a social process, writes Richard Reisman, that depends on three pillars: agency, mediation, and reputation.
https://www.techpolicy.press/three-pillars-of-human-discourse-and-how-social-media-middleware-can-support-all-three/
about 2 months ago
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A Welcome U-Turn in Ukraine
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A Welcome U-Turn in Ukraine
Massive protests forced Zelenskyy to backtrack on a dangerous law. Will Trump’s opponents heed the lesson?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-welcome-u-turn-in-ukraine?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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The EU Is Stuck in Second Gear
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The EU Is Stuck in Second Gear
The organization’s new budget is setting the continent on a path of genteel decline.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-eu-is-stuck-in-second-gear?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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What’s Happening to the “Deep State”?
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What’s Happening to the “Deep State”?
Assaults on American state capacity are gaining steam.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/whats-happening-to-the-deep-state?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Me on technology and politics:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zo_...
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Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History
YouTube video by Joseph Noel Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zo_UCXv5EA
about 2 months ago
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The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists
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The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists
The history of the world will be split into a pre-AI and a post-AI era. Too many people are still in denial.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yaschamounk/p/the-peculiar-persistence-of-the-ai?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Title IX and the Right’s Revenge
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The Right’s Revenge
How legal tools and strategies created by the left are now being deployed by Trump.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-rights-revenge?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Annihilation Of Our Freedom
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Annihilation Of Our Freedom
As national police power grows, American liberty declines.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/annihilation-of-our-freedom?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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reposted by
Francis Fukuyama
Euromaidan Press
2 months ago
Ukraine just took back Kindrativka and is pushing into Russian flanks in Sumy Weeks into Russia’s push across the Sumy Oblast border, Ukrainian forces are holding positions and putting pressure on the enemy’s main axis.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Ukraine just took back Kindrativka and is pushing into Russian flanks in Sumy
Weeks into Russia’s push across the Sumy Oblast border, Ukrainian forces are holding positions and putting pressure on the enemy’s main axis.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/28/ukraine-recaptures-kindrativka-sumy/
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Francis Fukuyama
FSI Stanford
2 months ago
On
@cnbc.com
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@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
discusses how the "America First" policies of the current administration could impact U.S. relations with partners and rivals in Asia:
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Francis Fukuyama discusses the unintended consequences of an 'America First' policy
Francis Fukuyama of Stanford University and Author of The End of History and the Last Man sees a longer-term trend of old liberal world order ideas being supplanted by those of national self-interest.
https://ow.ly/oakU50WtKYo
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The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence
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The Good Fight Club: Epstein, Columbia, Ukraine, Fed Independence
In this inaugural episode of The Good Fight’s panel format, Francis Fukuyama, Ivan Krastev, and Mona Charen join Yascha to make sense of the events of the last week.
https://open.substack.com/pub/yaschamounk/p/the-good-fight-club-1?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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reposted by
Francis Fukuyama
Renee DiResta
2 months ago
Here is an explanation of what Tulsi Gabbard said about Russian interference, and why it’s bullshit.
bsky.app/profile/noup...
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The Day Merit Died
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The Day Merit Died
The Trump administration wants a civil service based on politics, not skills.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-day-merit-died?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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Francis Fukuyama on Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation
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Francis Fukuyama on Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation
We are going to delegate too much authority to machines...
https://www.persuasion.community/p/francis-fukuyama-on-agentic-ai?r=ifpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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Your regular invitation to subscribe to my Frankly Fukuyama YouTube channel:
youtu.be/Wq4t4abxE30
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Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/Wq4t4abxE30
2 months ago
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Why agentic AI is a threat:
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Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
https://youtu.be/Wq4t4abxE30
2 months ago
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