Bears Don’t Have Hunger Strikes

Here is a question worth contemplating: What is the difference between you and a bear? The obvious answers—opposable thumbs, Netflix subscriptions, the ability to feel existential dread—are correct but beside the point. Francis Fukuyama, in The End of History and the Last Man, offers a more philosophically interesting answer. The bear, he observes, cannot stage … Continue reading Bears Don’t Have Hunger Strikes