Martha Nussbaum’s Toleration of the Intolerant

Nussbaum often writes as if the tension between revealed religion (especially Islam) and liberal democracy is more a chimera than a reality, and as if she is oblivious to the theological requirements of separation of church and state. As a result, The New Religious Intolerance disappoints precisely where scholarly illumination is most urgently needed. It fails to engage the Islamic tradition in a candid dialogue, and never attempts to account for the genuine conflicts between Islam (and even the Catholic natural law tradition) and modern Western secularism.

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