Mark Lilla, in Daedalus (Spring 1994),Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
During the years between the world wars, it was hard for even the warmest advocates of Euro- pean liberalism to imagine the whole of Western Europe living under stable liberal governments anytime soon. The future belonged to commu- nism, fascism, socialism-anything but liberal- ism. Remarkably, observes Lilla, a professor of politics and French studies at New YorkUniver- sity, liberalism has triumphed.
Yet...