RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Can The Global World Evolve? “Projections that underpinned the liberal policies of population control, climate change, open borders, soft power are now suspect. . . . The failure of the establishment to anticipate its drawbacks left it vulnerable to the crisis of 2016. They are in disarray to this day. The next few years ought to be dominated by efforts to rebuild the Western consensus if the global world is to survive. But can it evolve? Paradoxically the biggest threat to successful adaptation may prove to be the intransigence of its ideological supporters who are so angry at the collapse of their vision they sometimes forget where their best interests lie.”