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Nothing explains the looming end of the liberal vision than the naivete of two widely-held ideals. The first is Adam Smith’s. He said: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.”
The other is the even more naïve slogan of the French Revolution: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”. Words which form a central part of our own preamble and which
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