Friday 4 September 2026
07:45
Dr. Francis Fukuyama
In the Realm of the Last Man
Profound and provocative, Francis’ soon to be published memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man’, is an intimate portrait of one of the twenty-first century’s most important thinkers, an urgent study of contemporary politics – and a treatise on how the West can claw democracy back from the brink. Francis will be discussing this and more as he reflects on the past three decades and throws light on the decades to come.
Francis is the internationally-bestselling author of 11 books, including his globally renowned Liberalism and Its Discontents and The End of History and the Last Man. He is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He lives in California.
'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama'
Author, academic, policy advisor
Francis is the internationally-bestselling author of 11 books, including his globally renowned Liberalism and Its Discontents and The End of History and the Last Man. He is a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, and the Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He lives in California.