When a nation fails to reckon with its past, it risks the perpetuation of intolerance on one hand, and resentment on the other.
The terrorist attack in Paris offers them a teachable moment, an opportunity to open students' eyes to the difference between truth and propaganda; between governing by fiat and governing by persuasion; between intellectual rigidity and intolerance, on one hand, and free and robust debate, on the other.
Apparently, they first turned up in the 1916 silent film, Intolerance, on the eyes of one of the leads.
But even among the flying insults and the abject intolerance on display, I can still see one good outcome: France is finally discovering that gay couples have relationships that are very much the same as those of heterosexual people.
This is the first study in a developing country of the impact of glucose intolerance on mortality in an African population, and one of the first studies of a South Asian population.
Boston founder Tom Scholz announced Monday that the band was axing shows planned for May 4-6 in Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, noting in a statement that it was likely that some fans or their loved ones would be affected by "this ugly expression of intolerance" on a daily basis.
Unlike the conversation about the national debt, where advocates argue in favor of or in opposition to austerity measures based upon economic models and rational considerations, the fight for LGBT rights is instead a battle between those with considered viewpoints on one side and those who express their personal and group intolerance on the other.
How will the AFA continue to spread homophobia and intolerance on the web?
Turning Point casts itself as a grassroots response to what it perceives as liberal intolerance on college campuses.
The forces of hate, retribution, deceit and intolerance on both sides are too strong to bridge through negotiation.
Much of Thiel's and Sacks' work on the Stanford Review formed the basis for their 1995 book, The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus.
