The world we know is largely the institutional outcome of liberalism’s political triumph, first in the West and increasingly worldwide. Yet today liberal thought is deeply divided against itself and, in this division, often unable to comprehend a world in
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Liberal democracy, science, and the market constitute Western modernity’s finest flowers. Each has transformed the world, and together they created a decisive break with all preceding societies. Today even cultures with no understanding of the principles underlying these institutions rhetorically