"Whether one is a socialist or a conservative or a centrist, or
anything else, one should be committed to upholding the principles of the Enlightenment .. it is crucial to stand up for those values now. This is the age of Trump and Orbán and Putin, the age of
left-wing identity politics, the age of Ayatollah Khamenei and Xi Jinping, the age of Islamism and jihadism—in short, an age where Enlightenment ideals are being challenged on all sides."