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Episode #52: Dialogue with Francis Fukuyama
Season 1, Ep. 52
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Hub Dialogues (part of The Hub, Canada’s daily information source for public policy – https://www.thehub.ca) are in-depth conversations about big ideas from the worlds of business, economics, geopolitics, public policy, and technology.
The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with the leading political scientist Francis Fukuyama about his brilliant new book, Liberalism and its Discontents.
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