Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Liberalism's best selling point was the moral argument noted early in the piece.

But we're in a post-morality world. Pragmatism, empirical data, and rationality rule among the smarter sets of us.

There is no conflict between pragmatism, empiricism and rationality, on the one hand, and morality on the other. Those are just the means to get to what's just and moral.