What the post-liberals get right—and the reason they are winning—is that the end of history has been sallow, ugly and deflating. Theirs is decidedly not an intellectual objection. It is not even an ethical objection, though it is often trussed up in the trappings of moral outrage. At its core, it is an aesthetic aversion. The long and short of it... See more

Thus, even if we card-carrying non-perfectionists are avowedly not in the business of forcing anyone to adopt a particular conception of the good life, we must be in the business of endowing our fellow citizens with a robust appreciation for the seething multiplicity that results when we allow many outlooks to collide.