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Frankly Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama

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Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 19

Join Francis Fukuyama for conversations with leading policymakers and thinkers as he explores how to revitalize liberal democracy in the United States, while addressing the authoritarian challenges to liberal democracy abroad. A project of American Purpose at Persuasion.

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Alex Stamos on the Real Threat Posed By AI

Thursday, December 11, 2025 • Duration 42:30

Alex Stamos was formerly head of security at Facebook/Meta and is a leading expert on computer security. He discusses the threats to computer security posed by the most recent advances in AI, and explains why those are much more dangerous and urgent than the “existential” threats feared by many.

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Laura K. Field on the New Right

Thursday, December 4, 2025 • Duration 45:57

Francis Fukuyama and Laura K. Field, author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, explore the ideological roots of Trumpism, the role of gender in the New Right, and the complicated legacy of Leo Strauss.

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Our Coming Plutocracy

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 • Duration 08:17

In this episode, Francis Fukuyama explores why the Tesla board’s offer of a trillion dollar incentive to Elon Musk and the consolidation of a gigantic media empire by Larry Ellison and his son David are the latest examples of the dangerous levels of concentrated wealth and power in today’s America.

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Francis Fukuyama on Agentic AI and the Problem of Delegation

Monday, July 21, 2025 • Duration 08:41

In this episode of Frankly Fukuyama, Francis Fukuyama explores AI’s existential threat to humanity. The original blog post which inspired this episode is here.

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Michael McFaul on The Emerging Geopolitical Order

Thursday, June 5, 2025 • Duration 16:49

Michael McFaul is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, and author of the forthcoming book Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder.

In this conversation, Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul discuss discuss Russia, whether there is a new Cold War between the United States and China, and why teaching should empower students to be actual policy implementers rather than simply technocrats.

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Parag Khanna on How To Measure State Capacity

Monday, June 2, 2025 • Duration 43:44

In the latest conversation on the Frankly Fukuyama podcast, Francis Fukuyama is joined by Parag Khanna.

Parag Khanna is a political scientist and author of a number of books, including Move! The Forces Uprooting Us, How to Run the World, and Technocracy in America. He is the CEO of AlphaGeo, a geospatial predictive location analytics platform, and the creator of The Periodic Table of States.

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Batu Kutelia on Georgia

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 • Duration 28:15

Batu Kutelia was a former ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to the Untied States, and a senior official in the Georgian Defense Ministry. In this interview, he talks about the strategic importance of Georgia and the so-called "Middle Corridor", and how the country is under severe pressure from Russia to re-enter the Russian strategic orbit

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Introducing the Frankly Fukuyama Podcast!

Monday, May 5, 2025 • Duration 27:34

I’d like to introduce you to a new podcast series that will accompany my Frankly Fukuyama blog on American Purpose at Persuasion. Rose Gottemoeller is the former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, has held a series of top State Department posts including Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, and was chief negotiator of the New START Treaty.

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Jim Fishkin on Deliberation and Democracy

Monday, November 24, 2025 • Duration 32:55

Francis Fukuyama interviews Jim Fishkin, author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?, about why democracies need deliberation, the role of AI, and how to ensure the deliberative process doesn’t hinder public infrastructure projects.

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Why We Need Abundance

Monday, November 17, 2025 • Duration 23:35

Francis Fukuyama is interviewed by Leonora Barclay, Head of Podcasts at Persuasion, about what’s stopping the United States from building infrastructure, how to encourage public participation without holding projects back, and why abundance is the solution to many affordability issues in America today.

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