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To suggest that there is considerable turmoil across the globe is an understatement.
鈥淣ature abhors a vacuum鈥 is constantly given new reign.
Following the Soviet Union鈥檚 collapse in 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama announced history was dead.
His best selling 鈥淭he End of History and the Last Man鈥 is updated, still in print and nowhere near death.
Then in 2018 Fukuyama鈥檚 book 鈥淚dentity鈥 announces that 鈥渇ragmentation based on alignment of interest into identity groups, has emerged as a new threat to democracy鈥.
On September 3, 2025 retired barrister Louise Clegg wrote an opinion article drawing on all the above, called 鈥淪liding into technocracy鈥.
After thirty years in the legal profession, she guests in Podcast 302.
From Nietzsche to Charlie Kirk, it is a worthy discussion.
There鈥檚 more on the assassination of Charlie Kirk in the Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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