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It’s a tiny little book (117 pages, 4” x 7½”), elegantly printed but deprived by the publisher (Beacon Press) of the conventional book jacket, and with a somewhat mystifying title: A Critique of Pure Tolerance. None of the major book review media has paid any attention to it. But it is finding a constituency of its own on the campuses, especially among “politically advanced” students; and it may turn out to be a book of considerable influence and significance. For the three essays in it, all by respected professors, are not only affirmations of a radical politics but of an anti-liberal politics. And that is something new.

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