Culture

Triumph of the Enlightenment Fundamentalists Apparently the whole world should look and sound and act like the liberal West.

Who won the last culture war? I’m referring to the skirmishes over Islam, immigration, and liberal democracy that roiled the West in the aftermath of 9/11. In those years, the two opposing camps weren’t the woke and un-woke, but “Enlightenment fundamentalists” and “cultural relativists,” as each would polemically characterize the other.

The former (the fundamentalists) believed fervently that the whole world should adopt liberalism—an ideology they saw as the universal endpoint of all human...