Issue No.
40
December 2010
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| Welcome to December’s review of books |
 Tim Black
Everyone claims to be in favour of tolerance these days. It would take a brave man or woman to champion intolerance and to call explicitly for certain creeds and outlooks to be elbowed out of public life. Yet when people use the t-word, they mean something quite different to the Enlightened virtue of tolerance as defined and defended by thinkers from Locke to Mill. They mean recognising and respecting cultural differences - a jettisoning of critical judgement that is a million miles from the ideas outlined in a tract like Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration. In this month's spiked review of books, Frank Furedi, author of the forthcoming On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence, says it is time we rediscovered the true meaning and import of tolerance. We also have Josie Appleton on Britain’s ‘bad laws’, Nancy McDermott on fetal-origins research, Tiffany Jenkins on museums that hide their mummies, Tim Black on Modernism, and much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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