Excerpt from the book by Scott H. Moore, The Limits of Liberal Democracy, 2009 Walker Percy's 1971 novel Love in the Ruins is set "in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A..." Narrator Dr. Tom More begins with his delightfully disturbing description of life in the Paradise Estates suburb, just before the "end of the world." More tells us that: [start quote}...the scientists, who are mostly liberal and unbelievers, and the businessmen, who are mostly conservative and Christian, live side by side in Paradise Estates. Though the two make much of their differences -- one speaking of...