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...help from Ed Gabel and Missy Adams, describes what the soldier of 2025 will be wearing (and wait until you hear about rations). For those who think that peace in the Middle East will end the region's turmoil, Robin Wright has a more complicated story to tell. Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, offers a surprising answer to his question, "Will Socialism Make a Comeback?" Pico Iyer has an idiosyncratic take on whether globalization is bringing us together or splitting us apart. And, finally, Caleb Carr gives us Part Four of his compelling novella about the future...
HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...
...waning months of the 1980s, a Sovietologist named Francis Fukuyama published a provocative essay called "The End of History?" Fukuyama's thesis--that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short on history. The end of the cold war defrosted earlier rivalries that had been frozen for two generations, bringing bloody history back to places like Bosnia, where it had been in cold storage...
...Which is why many scholars have expressed concern that Americans have been turning inward during the past 25 years. Putnam and others argue that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights revolution" of the 1970s and '80s undermined the country's sense of community. I replaced we as the pronoun of choice. The Me decades supplanted the We century. There is no doubt that America's narcissism is showing. But ever since feminists asserted that the "personal...
...This is not the end of history," Christopher theorized, "but history in fast-forward." Though he dismissed Fukuyama, the Secretary actually embraced the notion that industrial capitalism and its servant, representative democracy, will dominate the global marketplace unchallenged. America's interests he unfortunately believes, lie in the glitch-free maintenance of the present order...