Anti-Climacus

ACTUALLY: I'll go one further than that. If the Liberal project is ever going to mean anything vital (and, if only for my sake, I believe that it can) then it has to recognize that the center of Liberalism is a well-functioning, free society. And here it is not a matter of motes and planks: liberty is an objective good, as is the republican-democratic form of government, and we must be prepared to spread it as far as possible whenever such an opportunity arises.