A look at the top headlines this morning:

• Colorado legalizes marijuana
• Voters approve same-sex marriage for the first time in 2 states
• Wisconsin elects first openly gay senator
• The man who tried to defeat the infant born alive act is reelected president

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay for the National Journal entitled “The End of History?”  The essay became the foundation of his 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man.  I read the book at the time – and disagreed at the time with its quintessentially-20th-century thesis that mankind had evolved firmly into Western liberal democracy, and that the social and cultural pressures that had hitherto created “history” would no longer be doing so.

That’s the 20th century in a nutshell: the ascendance of a shallow, even sophomoric belief