e "crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Imperialism certainly added its quota to these. But the question is whether it also provided, through Hegel's "cunning of reason," the means to escape from them. Even Marx justified British rule in India on these grounds. Ferguson, too, can make a sound arg

e've gotten to the present. Along the way it was also a means of revisiting a lot of The End of History 20 years later. SHAFFER: Some theorists, like Hegel, think that history doesn't just tell us what is stable, or what works, but actually points us toward moral progress. Do you believe that? FUKUYAMA:

ring to his extensive background in philosophy, a subject in which he had a PhD. He would always begin his statements by saying, “Kant would say” or “Hegel would say.” One day we were going to be studying an essay by one of the great contemporary philosophers, Robert Nozick. I knew that this particular s