Summary

The main body of the book begins with Part I, “The Technological Challenge.” The first chapter is titled “Disillusionment,” and subtitled “The End of History Has Been Postponed.” The author begins by describing how, in the twentieth century, there were essentially three stories that were driving and defining the world’s structure and function. Those stories, he says, were communism, fascism, and liberalism. He argues that by the end of the twentieth century and into the beginnings of the twenty first, liberalism seemed to have emerged from the trio as the global defining story. But then, he says, with the economic crisis of 2008, liberalism also began to fade in influence which, he adds, created a crisis for those who continued to believe in liberalism’s power and inevitability and also gave voice to those who believed that liberalism was leaving them...