The end of friendship

With his new book renouncing his previous beliefs, Francis Fukuyama has become, in the words of Charles Krauthammer, “the world’s most celebrated ex-neoconservative.” Fukuyama is the renowned professor of international relations who declared the end of history at the conclusion of the Cold War. In his column today, Krauthammer takes issue with the anecdote that Fukuyama uses to dramatize his metamorphosis: “Fukuyama’s fantasy.”