11/09/2020 8:40 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/11/2020 1:36 PM
In 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American political scientist
Francis Fukuyama
surprised the intellectual world of that time with an essay called The End of History?
It was based on the conviction that the disappearance of communism and the regimes of that ideology left the field open for the consolidation of democracy and free markets throughout the world.
This challenging thesis, which provoked a heated controversy, would later be ratified by the author in a book called The End of History and Man.
History took its course and several of the predictions of this thinker did not come true.
But that vision marked a very clear moment in the debate of ideas.
Fukuyama will participate
today at 4:00
p.m. in the cycle of dialogue with great thinkers and personalities from politics, economics, culture and journalism, in
celebration of Clarín's 75th anniversary
.
The thinker will dialogue with the journalist and philosopher Miguel Wiñazki in a streaming conversation that can be seen on
Clarin.com
and the rest of the digital platforms of this newspaper.
The participants, as is characteristic of this cycle, will be able to ask questions of this thinker, a doctor in political science from Harvard University and a doctorate from John Hopkins University in Washington.
Recently Fukuyama has signed with many other intellectuals of different ideological extraction, from Noam Chomsky to JK Rowling, in addition to Wyston Marsalis and Margaret Atwood, a manifesto denouncing that the freedom to think
in the United States was in danger by political polarization, supremacist ideas
and "political correctness."
He was an advisor to George Bush.
Located among the so-called neo-conservatives, Fukuyama will also talk about what will happen in the United States with the return of the Democrats to the White House with Joe Biden as president.
And also the global impact of the pandemic and the society that will emerge after Covid-19.
He was severely critical of Donald Trump and the "divisiveness" he produced in American society.
He literally said: "The existing polarization has completely infected the response to the pandemic."
Fukuyama becomes part of the plethora of people interviewed by
Clarín
in his cycle of dialogues;
former Uruguayan president Julio María Sanguinetti;
the former president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos;
the former Spanish President Felipe González and the former President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Also participating in this event were the eminent German philosopher Gabriel Markus and the renowned journalist and writer Jon Lee Anderson.