We live in a revolutionary age. With all the change and transformation that has occurred, people are overwhelmed, anxious and fearful of a future that could mean more disruption, dislocation and the loss of the world that they grew up in. Some in the West are ready for radicalism. Some outside see this as the moment to break the long dominance of the West and its ideas. But if we tear down liberalism at home, if we allow it to be eroded abroad, we will find that the edifice of ideas and practices that liberalism and democracy have built will also crumble. And we will return to a world that is more impoverished, tense and conflict-ridden than the one we have known for generations.

-Fareed Zarkara in the 

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