Charlie Hebdo, perché la vera risposta è: più tolleranza, più rispetto

One core principle lies at the foundation of contemporary, liberal democracies: justice. Today this seems so obvious to be unquestionable. What else could guarantee the smooth interactions among ever larger and more complex groups of people, if not justice in its various distributive and retributive incarnations? Yet the answer, a long time ago, was different. It was toleration. The Thirty Years War, between 1618 and 1648, was really World War Zero. It was one of the most destructive and prolonged conflicts in