There must be room for robust debate and exchange of views, otherwise we become an intolerant, illiberal society," they said.
Under the increasingly authoritarian rule of prime minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary risks becoming the black sheep of the EU because of its record on human rights, media freedom, and Orbán's drive to create what he calls an "illiberal" society.
Pakistan is a very illiberal society.
Amid the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, illiberal societies like Egypt and Syria have faced political crises, but the developed world has not.
There is also, perhaps, too much faith in the current notion that illiberal societies can free-market themselves into nice, stable, liberal ones — an approach that the former Soviet Union does not seem to be having much luck with.
Endelman also reveals that liberal societies such as Great Britain and the United States, which tolerated Jewish integration, promoted radical assimilation and the dissolution of Jewish ties as often as hostile, illiberal societies such as Germany and Poland.
But the effort to democratize an illiberal order -- a Russia, a former Yugoslavia, a Haiti, an Iraq -- lays elections over societies without the rooted institutions that protect democrats and democratic values.
Congregations vary widely in their attitudes but are, for the most part, no more illiberal than the society around them.
He was unwilling to learn from obvious policy mistakes that, by degrees, turned Cuba into the relatively impoverished, illiberal and closed society it still is today.
In the wake of the al-Qaida atrocity of 9/11, for which Harris held the religion of Islam responsible, the New Atheists have polemicised relentlessly against religion as such, which they view as an inevitably illiberal presence in society.
To legitimise their disregard for a plural civil society, illiberal governments use the language of security.
