{"id":3377,"date":"2026-03-07T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:53:23","slug":"what-is-western-civilization-prof-frankly-fukuyama-5-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"What Is Western Civilization?, Prof. Frankly Fukuyama, 5 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to Europeans of a shared &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221; at the Munich Security Conference in February.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;What what does that phrase mean? For many conservatives, it means a specifically Christian culture, while more most Europeans it means the liberal civilization that came out of the Enlightenment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some readers have pointed out that Jesse Jackson did not personally endorse the elimination of the Western Culture core course at Stanford, though student demonstrators did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frankly Fukuyama is the YouTube channel and blog of Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University&#8217;s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What \u201cWestern Civilization\u201d Really MeansIt has less to do with faith\u2014and more to do with the Enlightenment\u2014than Marco Rubio thinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His latest book is Liberalism and Its Discontents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0He is also the author of the \u201cFrankly Fukuyama\u201d column, carried forward from American Purpose, at Persuasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sq6MWZVBPgY?is=f08m_0qs-dSR-kEp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Sq6MWZVBPgY?is=f08m_0qs-dSR-kEp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to Europeans of a shared &#8220;Western Civilization&#8221; at the Munich Security Conference in February.&nbsp; &nbsp;What what does that phrase mean? For many conservatives, it means a specifically Christian culture, while more most Europeans it means the liberal civilization that came out of the Enlightenment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some readers have pointed out that Jesse Jackson did not personally endorse the elimination of the Western Culture core course at Stanford, though student demonstrators did. Frankly Fukuyama is the YouTube channel and blog of Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}