Read the whole thing. Liddle suggests at the very end that liberalism might have had its day. If so, what comes next? I don't know, and I don't think anybody knows, any more than Italians in the 6th century knew what was coming after the fall of the Roman Empire. Liberalism, in all its iterations, is much more than a governing philosophy; it's a way of seeing the world. When all your life your horizons have been delineated by liberalism of one sort or another, it's very difficult to imagine anything beyond it.
But there is a world beyond it. Several worlds, in fact, depending on which direction we choose. Not saying this is going to be a pleasant journey for us all, but it's going to be a journey.
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