Listen now | 00:54 Frank’s book The End of History and the Last Man 10:35 Bob’s book Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny 17:14 Do people have to be rational in order to cooperate? 24:07 Are AI and other technologies advancing too rapidly for society to adapt? 37:21 Frank’s take on Hegel 48:05 Why Frank’s a Russia hawk and Bob's a Russia dove 58:12 Will authoritarian regimes do a better job of dealing with advanced information technologies? Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Francis Fukuyama (Stanford University, The End of History and the Last Man, Liberalism and Its Discontents). Recorded May 23, 2023.
I wish Bob would have pushed back more on Fukuyama’s critique of Mearsheimer. One needn’t agree with Mearsheimer’s analysis of the Ukraine war, but M. addresses every one of Fukuyama’s points here in virtually all of his writing and talks on this topic. Fukuyama doesn’t appear to have seriously engaged with Mearsheimer’s argument at all.
I wish Bob would have pushed back more on Fukuyama’s critique of Mearsheimer. One needn’t agree with Mearsheimer’s analysis of the Ukraine war, but M. addresses every one of Fukuyama’s points here in virtually all of his writing and talks on this topic. Fukuyama doesn’t appear to have seriously engaged with Mearsheimer’s argument at all.
My first thought upon seeing this on Friday was "wow, Mickey is just as bald as I remember but WAY more Asian than I remember!"