Peter Berkowitz teaches at George Mason University Law School. He is the author, most recently, of Virtue and the Making of the Modern.
Once liberalism’s signature virtue, toleration has of late been superseded by other more fashionable ideals. Foremost among these is ‘sensitivity’, before which there was ‘neutrality’.‘
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