On Tolerance and Freedom

I could hardly expect that a journal named DISSENT should review our little book favorably, but I assumed that it would choose a reviewer who could read. Professor Spitz imagines that my essay is an attack on Mill. In fact, as even the casual reader should be able to discern, it is an attack on something called “pluralism,” which I go out of my way to explain is not the theory espoused by Mill. Pluralism, as I characterized it, is an outgrowth of twentieth-century attempts to fuse...