How the West lost faith in globalism

Growing numbers of voters are asking themselves a question: Are we better off now than we were before the era of globalism began? And they are answering with an emphatic no.

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Is globalism dying?

Plenty of analysts have begun posing such profound questions about globalism, an ideology that has dominated elite circles of the West at least since the end of the Cold War, in response to the improbable presidential candidacy of Donald Trump and the U.K. voting to take itself out of the European Union.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.