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Article: The case of tolerance. (American conservative movement)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 18, 1986
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THE CASE FOR TOLERANCE
THE AMERICAN conservative movement of the twentieth century is currently waging a rather successful was against the intellectual establishment, the press, and "the tide of history." The ideas of Western civilization and the truth they embody provide us with powerful artillery once we organize and field a small army. Our ideas are quite simply proving more persuasive than the alternatives posed by the Left.
Western civilization and the Judaeo-christian ethic have lost defenders whenever their advocates have allowed their belief in absolutes to tempt them into a rigidity and intolerance at odds with their fundamental premises. The ...