When it comes to interpreting the tides of history, Francis Fukuyama is arguably the most influential American intellectual of my lifetime. His 1989 essay, “The End of History,” did not merely launch a decades-long debate about democracy’s apparent triumph after the cold war. It also profoundly shaped post-cold war US foreign policy. And Fukuyama had a ringside seat. His effort to convince his old friend, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, that the Bush administration was courting disaster by invading Iraq, makes for one of the most intriguing subplots of the march to war.
Such a blessing that a father should have shaped and inspired a son like you - and that your father shaped your father-ness, which is now shaping your children. All physical life ends, but our spirits live on in those who loved us and whom we love. Thanks for a beautiful meditation on the non-futility of life!
Peter, Todah for a deeply felt, intimate and thoughtful meditation on the Jahrzeit of your father. You have enveloped us in a Spiritual Sukkah, (Hebrew root of Sukah לסוכך is to protect, to envelop,)in rejoicing, remembering and in mourning, of your father's meaningful life in the context of Sukkot. יישר כח
A Season of Grief and Joy
Such a blessing that a father should have shaped and inspired a son like you - and that your father shaped your father-ness, which is now shaping your children. All physical life ends, but our spirits live on in those who loved us and whom we love. Thanks for a beautiful meditation on the non-futility of life!
Peter, Todah for a deeply felt, intimate and thoughtful meditation on the Jahrzeit of your father. You have enveloped us in a Spiritual Sukkah, (Hebrew root of Sukah לסוכך is to protect, to envelop,)in rejoicing, remembering and in mourning, of your father's meaningful life in the context of Sukkot. יישר כח