One thing that evidently isn't going to be changing in the Guardian is Madeleine Bunting. Today she's having a go at people she calls 'muscular liberals'. Amongst other and worse things, she charges them with an attachment - which she calls 'imperialistic' - to Enlightenment values.
I've been otherwise engaged for most of the day, and the guys at Harry's Place have already had a fair few things to say about Bunting's article. So I'll just encourage you to think about how much confidence you can have in the opinion on Enlightenment values of a writer who can characterize the reality of one of these values in the society in which she lives by telling us that we need 'more meanings of freedom than the freedom to shop'.