All Posts Tagged With: "tolerance"
Classical Liberalism, Individualism, and Park51
Painting all Muslims or Islamic organizations with collective guilt goes against the essence of the individualist principles of classical liberalism.
14Sep2010 | Sandy Ikeda | 21 comments | ContinuedYou Can’t Always Get What You Want
Sandy Ikeda’s “Wabi-sabi” column on TheFreemanOnline.org today has a fascinating take on imperfection, tolerance, criticism, and competition. Check it out here.
9Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedMarkets, Politics, and Civility
“The teachable—those who aspire to an ever greater understanding—are those with an awareness of how little they know.” —Leonard E. Read In March, ABC Television presented “You Can’t Say That!”—another illuminating program by John Stossel. In it, he documented the distressing intolerance that many Americans have for the opinions of others, and a corresponding acceptance [...]
1Jul2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Menace of Multiculturalism by Alvin J. Schmidt
Praeger Publishers • 1997 • 199 pages + index • $39.95 Steven Yates, who teaches management ethics at Southern Wesleyan University, is an adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). In [...]
1Jan1998 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat Is Multiculturalism?
Dr. Mack is a professor of philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Occasionally one thinks that, perhaps because it has become so tedious, multiculturalism has begun to pass from the scene. Unfortunately, such thoughts seem entirely too optimistic in light of the great extent to which multiculturalist slogans have become culturally and institutionally [...]
1Oct1996 | Eric Mack | 2 comments | Continued-
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