The presidential election was never going to resolve the bitter ideological divides that have become a familiar part of our political culture. The project of peaceful coexistence with fellow citizens who see the world differently—perhaps the most significant goal of liberalism itself—seems to grow ever more challenging. And recent proclamations by political thinkers that liberalism harbors significant philosophical incoherencies, that it has taken some disastrous turns in recent years, or that it has outright failed are perhaps enough to make that project feel like a fool’s errand.
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