Herbert Marcuse: the Father of Repressive Tolerance

Featured Image: Herbert Marcuse in Newtown, Massachusetts, 1955.  © Marcuse Family.

In his First Inaugural Address Thomas Jefferson said of dissenters, "let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." Today dissenters and monuments alike are regularly toppled. Sa…