Montesquieu had it right when he observed that, as far as the interests of commerce go, the whole world “comprises but a single state, of which all societies are members.” Many self-described conservatives, from the Bush dynasty in the United States to the post-Brexit globalists led by Boris Johnson, have fallen for the idea that their task is to conserve only the interests of such a state, which naturally must run on the ideological software of a rootless, unbridled, anti-cultural liberalism.