“There is something deeply inauthentic about the contemporary demand for authenticity. The kind of cultures that the Enlightenment philosophes wanted to consign to history were, in an important sense, different from the cultures that today’s multiculturalists wish to preserve. In the premodern world there was no sense of cultural integrity or authenticity. Modern multiculturalism seeks self-consciously to yoke people to their identity for their own good, the good of that culture and the good of society.”