From theories of religious intolerance during the Reformation to the contemporary suppression of religious symbols; from homophobia to attempts to ban it; from populism on the right to "cancel culture" on the left-this book covers a variety of forms of intolerance, analysing not only its consequences but its causes and implications as well.

Jeffrey Friedman, the editor of Critical Review, is a visiting scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).

Introduction: Intolerance, Power, and Epistemology 1. Consequences, Conscience, and Fallibility: Early Modern Roots of Toleration 2. Marx and Romanticism 3. Early Modern Epistemologies and Religious Intolerance 4. Citizens as Militant Democrats, Or: Just How Intolerant Should the People Be? 5. Philosophical Foundations of Contemporary Intolerance: Why We No Longer Take Martin Luther King, Jr. Seriously 6. Who Is Intolerant? The Clash Between LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Free Exercise