Welcome to the LSE Events Podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Good evening, everyone.
For those who don't know me, my name is Larry Kramer.
You're not here to see me, but I'm the president and vice chancellor here at LSE,
and it is my privilege to welcome you to this very special event co-hosted
by the School of Public Policy and the Feeling United States Center.
I've known Frank for a long time,
but I have notes, so I'm going to do this intro from my notes just so you know.
We're lucky to hear from someone who's unquestionably one of the most influential political scientists alive,
arguably the most influential one.
Over the past 40 years, Frank Fukuyama's writings on democracy, liberalism, and the foundations
and future of political order have repeatedly changed the conversation on those and other crucial topics,
and not just in the academy, but in the media and in the halls of government as well.
Now, Frank has many very special achievements.
I'm not going to go through all those.
There is one, though, that's a very rare mark of intellectual fame and something
I do want to note at the outset, and that's this.
Despite being a prolific author who has more readers than all but a tiny handful of scholars,
Frank has that rarest of accomplishments, namely that far more people have an opinion