He could diagnose thinning but not see clearly what might be taking shape in the shadow of that thinning, because doing so would have required him to admit that liberalism was one historical formation among others, subject to exhaustion like any other. What comes next is not, in the first instance, a philosophical problem in his sense. It is practical, liturgical and reproductive. It concerns the communities that build worldviews in people, well or badly, while the old admini