Liberalism has been getting a bad press. Even self-described liberal Francis Fukuyama endorses “the substantive conservative critique of liberalism - that liberal societies provide no common moral horizon around which community can be built,” proof of a profound “spiritual vacuum” at their core. New York Times columnist David Brooks, whose convictions are hard to pinpoint, similarly laments that “the liberal world order is in crisis.” Are these influential opinion-makers right? That all depends on how you define “liberal.”
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