A recent read of Francis Fukayama’s Liberalism and its Discontents set me thinking. For someone who is not a social scientist despite being a short book of 174 pages, it is a tightly written, challenging but stimulating read, which I can recommend. I have in fact read the book twice and continue to delve into various chapters in the book. Having in the past been taken to task for my application of the so-called neoliberal policies of budgetary austerity faced with a limited health budget, the book made me think whether I am indeed a liberal with socialist leanings, which I had always considered myself to be, or whether over…