“If compared to the 1990s, then yes, things are getting worse,” says @LianaFix. But looking back as a historian over the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s? “The picture looks quite different. So what is the benchmark? Yes, globalization doesn’t hold the same promise it did in the ’90s, and we’re back in a more contentious age, but the era of liberal democracy is not over.”