New League Post: Modernity, Democracy, and Liberalism

Here’s a new League post on whether democracies can be liberal—and whether liberalism can survive in democratic regimes:

There are much more interesting questions lurking behind the (usually unprofitable) “are we/aren’t we a Christian or Protestant or WASP or plural nation?” debates: Just how much common ground does a liberal democracy need? Is there a point where a country becomes so diverse as to be unrecognizable as a distinct entity? In other words, can our cosmopolitanism eventually swallow up the things that make us American? And above all—have we already reached that tipping point?

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