I think that this article is indicative of the necessity at this point to rethink Liberalism if we want to save Liberal society (i.e. one with a democratic political process and the rule of law — with the primacy of liberty as its primary concern).

Liberalism has equality and liberty as ‘the twin pillars of justice’ for society. I gradually came to realize that a just society requires an ethic of justice (a rule to govern governance) and that neither of those values is an ethic.

Equality does, however, imply an ethic: mutual respect (of a basic kind — taking one another into account). A society governed by that ethic would maximize as a practical matter the liberty that co-existing people can share.

If anyone is curious, I have expanded on that theme in “Equality Is All We Need” and “Re-thinking Individualism” (both here in Medium).