America's most famous THINKER by Bryan Appleyard

The true philosopher, therefore, would not necessarily tell the truth. For the benefit of the people, he would support their false but beneficial beliefs in the name of defending liberal democracy. This concept of systematic deception has returned to haunt the neocons.

Fukuyama is now professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University in Washington. But though he has become an Establishment figure, the realism he learnt at Rand and the State Department has led to a deep schism between America's most famous thinker and his neocon friends in the Bush administration.