Recommended: The Truth about Tolerance

I recommend Bruce Thornton's recent article The Truth About Tolerance: How our therapeutic thinkers threaten Western values. We do have a tendency in our society to spend a lot of time being critical of ourselves (well, not really about our own views, of course, but certainly about the views of all those wrongheaded and misguided Americans around us). I suppose that stems in part from the dominant religious views in our society, with their constant focus on human sin and unworthiness. In any case, as Thornton points out, we do seem too often to be applying a double standard in our constant attempt to be tolerant and politically correct.