{"id":33,"date":"2006-03-21T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:00:05","slug":"conservative-fukuyama-and-liberal-soros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Fukuyama and Liberal Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just took some time to write a little comment on Soros&#8217; book <em>The bubble of American Supremacy &#8211; The costs of Bush&#8217;s war in Iraq<\/em>, which I had in mind for some time. It was published as a comment to Michael Signer&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyarsenal.org\/2006\/02\/francis_fukuyam.html#comment-15251426\">Democracy Arsenal<\/a>.  I think Soros&#8217; extension of Popper is very useful in understanding  present day issues like Intelligent Design and fundamentalism.<\/p>\n<p>I conclude that Fukuyama&#8217;s sticking to natural rights still makes him a conservative, not a liberal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just took some time to write a little comment on Soros&#8217; book The bubble of American Supremacy &#8211; The costs of Bush&#8217;s war in Iraq, which I had in mind for some time. It was published as a comment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=33\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}