What is needed is new thinking about how openness and equality can be made to live happily together, a “neo-neoliberalism” that restores a more classical understanding of what is meant by, and required from, equality. This is the sort of understanding that was held two centuries ago by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, both thinkers who were sensitive to the moral requirements for societies to function well and the need to deal with the trade-offs and other consequences of untrammelled liberty.
