In 1989, when Francis Fukuyama wrote his (now famous) essay ‘The End of History’, he surely did so with at least part of his tongue lodged in his cheek. At any rate, Fukuyama could not have foreseen how the world would change in the time between the penultimate decade of the 20th century and the second decade of the 21st century. A glance at the dogma and dreadful doings of Islamic State, or Donald Trump’s views...