Both in America and Europe， there is growing discomfort with the political theory called Enlightenment liberalism or liberal democracy。 In Enlightenment Lies ， Hazony gives clear and coherent voice to this discomfort， offering what may be the definitive argument against Enlightenment liberalism for our generation。 

Enlightenment Lies makes the case that Enlightenment liberalism is dismantling America， Britain， and other democratic nations—destroying every inherited concept that once held these nations together。 Enlightenment Lies will argue that the crisis of legitimacy over the Trump presidency and the parallel crisis in Britain over Brexit are just a foretaste of the gathering backlash against Enlightenment ideas。