In the long history of the emergence and disappearance of values, the meteoric rise of diversity as a new political and social value since the 1980s is almost unprecedented. In contrast to the value of equality, championed since at least the eighteenth century and yet still only haltingly and sporadically established after centuries, diversity achieved widespread acceptance in many societies in a matter of decades. What explains the extraordinarily rapid rise of diversity as a political value? A much longer history of diversity as an aesthetic and economic value underlies its recent success in the political realm—and reveals the fluid nature of all values.

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