Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance

Essays in Honor and Memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Editor, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Ann Arbor, Mi.: University of Michigan Press, 2000

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Introduction

 

Mrs. Lea Rabin

The Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin

 

Frederick Schauer

The Cost of Communicative Tolerance

 

David Feldman

Protest and Tolerance: Legal Values and the Control of Public-Order Policing

 

Owen Fiss

Freedom of Speech and Political Violence

 

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Boundaries of Freedom of Expression Before and After Prime Minister Rabin’s Assassination

 

Harvey Chisick

The Dual Threat to Modern Citizenship: Liberal Indifference and Non-consensual Violence

 

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

The Paradox of Israeli Civil Disobedience and Political Revolt in Light of the Jewish Tradition

 

L. W. Sumner

Should Hate Speech be Free Speech? John Stuart Mill and the Limits of Tolerance

 

Irwin Cotler

Holocaust Denial, Equality and Harm: Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance in a Liberal Democracy

 

Richard Moon

The Regulation of Racist Expression

 

Joseph Eliot Magnet

Freedom of the Press and Terrorism

 

David E. Boeyink

Reporting on Political Extremists in the United States: The Unabomber, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Militias

 

Edmund B. Lambeth

Pragmatic Liberalism and the Press in Violent Times

 

David Goldberg

Protecting Wider Purposes: Hate Speech, Communication, and the International Community

 

J. Michael Jaffe

Riding the Electronic Tiger: Censorship in Global, Distributed Networks

 

 

Notes on Contributors

 

Index