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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 17
Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 1 of 4
We live in a crazy world today that seems to have gone off the rails. That's because it is being driven by a broken logic, and, for all the flaws on the right, that broken logic is centered in the no-longer-tolerant left. The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse. That essay is "Repressive Tolerance." The thesis statement of this essay can be boiled down to "movements from the left must be extended tolerance...