What is wrong with the West today? This question has become unexpectedly common in recent years. It resonates even among those who used to believe that Western civilization reached the apex of human history with its liberal democracy, only wondering whether other civilizations would ever get there as well. Instead, some now wonder whether liberal democracy will survive in the West itself, as it is boldly challenged by the illiberalism of the far right and the far left, neither of which have much sympathy for free speech, free markets, rule of law, or religious liberty. But what accounts for this turbulence in Western societies? Is the West losing something that used to make it free, reasonable, and prosperous?
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