In a recent series justifying liberalism against its critics, Matt Yglesias devoted an essay to a defense of the liberal order as a thin canopy beneath which people can pursue their own thicker conceptions of the good life. The fact that liberal governments are obliged to “treat citizens as if they are atomized individuals,” he wrote, doesn’t mean “that people should, in fact, be atomized individuals.” The liberal order allows for myriad social cures for hyperindividualism, all kinds of private sources of morality and meaning. It just doesn’t impose a single one-size-fits-all model, because that way lies tyranny.