The postwar order was seen as a great success - the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union broke apart and communist China lifted their bamboo curtain high enough to engage in widespread international trade [...] So why is this 75-year-old international, liberal order ripping apart at the seams?

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I value the principles which became the hallmarks of Western democracy, made possible by the Age of Reason; religious tolerance (a wall between religion and state), a commitment to scientific inquiry,...