Neon Liberalism #46: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Toleration

Samantha Hancox-Li, Lucian Staiano-Daniels Oct 5, 2025

Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of religious civil war. How did the European Wars of Religion give birth to our concept of toleration? And is this history enough reason today to embrace toleration? Can religious civil wars be won—or is there a deeper reason to want to live in a diverse and pluralist society?

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Published in: Neon Liberalism, Podcast

Authors

Samantha Hancox-Li is the Executive Editor of Liberal Currents and host of the Neon Liberalism podcast.

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Lucian Staiano-Daniels is a Research Fellow in the History Lab at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His upcoming book is on common soldiers in the Thirty Years War.

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