Thiel co-founded PayPal and is a venture capitalist; he was an early investor in Facebook. In 2010 he created a fellowship with the mission of awarding $100,000 each to 20 people under 2

—Speaking of Valentine’s Day, Romney tells business leaders, “I love you.” —Francis Fukuyama interviews Peter Thiel —Radley Balko on the panic over

Francis Fukuyama has an essay at Foreign Affairs that is indubitably Fukuyama-esque. The subject is large -- liberal democracy, inequality and the middle class -- and it's spun forward into the future, where no hypothesis can immediately be tested. It is

As long as humans have lived and certainly ever since they learnt to write, they’ve been making doomsday claims. The religious sort is the most obvious. While history doesn’t record sandwich boards from the Buddha’s time, we can be sure some version of i

There's something to this (Fukuyama argues the rot began with Andrew Jackson which may be true, not least since Jackson's legacy endures to this day) but I'm not sure British "elite bureaucrats" are the bonniest poster-chaps for better government. The Ma

Pedestrians pass by a beggar off Athens' main Syntagma Square, on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. “Imagine,” writes scholar Francis Fukuyama in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, “an obscure scribbler in a garret somewhere trying to outline an ideology of the fu