In pluralist societies, people disagree about the good life. We should therefore set aside our moral and spiritual convictions when we enter the public square. We should govern according to principles that are neutral toward competing conceptions of the good. This penchant for neutrality bends liberalism in the direction of the market faith. The deepest appeal of markets is not that they deliver efficiency and prosperity, but that they seem to spare us the need for messy, contentious debates about how to value goods. This is, in the end, a false promise. Banishing morally contested questions
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