One doesn't even know where to begin in reviewing the book Why Liberalism Failed: What Happens When a Political Philosophy and Ideology Becomes the Victim of Its Own Success by Patrick Deneen.  It is a tour de force that will make people look at the sad state of our current political, social, and economic messes in an entirely new light. The following and somewhat lengthy quote early in the book is a good start: Liberalism has failed – not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself.  It has failed because it has succeeded.  As liberalism has "become more fully itself," as its inner logic has become more evident and its self-contradictions manifest, it has generated pathologies that are at once deformations of its claims yet realizations of liberal ideology.  A political philosophy that was launched to foster greater equity, defend a pluralist tapestry of different cultures and beliefs,...(Read Full Article)