The less we say about fraternity, the better. If equality is maintained, liberty must be compromised. If liberty is to be defended, equality cannot be ensured. There is an irrefutable contradiction among the three catchwords, liberty, equality and fraternity. What he conveniently forgets is that it is liberalism’s failure to appease people economically, motivate politically, and inspire intellectually that resulted in two World Wars and the inception of the most vicious forms of ‘illiberalism’ that the world has witnessed so far. Fukuyama pictures the nineteenth century as the heyday of classical liberalism. Historically, there is another timeline of disillusionment with liberalism which dates to the turn of the twentieth century. But the problem lies in the foundation of such projects. He does not doubt the sincerity of these attempts to revive the classical values of liberalism. This reviewer is not one of the sceptics.
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