THE UNNATURAL NATURE OF ANGLO EXCEPTIONALISM “The conceit of our era is to assum

THE UNNATURAL NATURE OF ANGLO EXCEPTIONALISM

“The conceit of our era is to assume that these ideals are somehow the natural condition of an advanced society—that all nations will get around to them once they become rich enough and educated enough. In fact, these ideals were developed overwhelmingly in the language in which you are reading these words. You don’t have to go back very far to find a time when freedom under the law was more or less confined to the Anglosphere: the community of English-speaking democracies.” – Daniel Hannan