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Over six years of working intermittently on this book, I have acquired many debts. Rainer Forst sparked the project with his invitation to revisit Marcuse’s essay “Repressive Tolerance” for his own edited volume on tolerance. Val Hartouni made the first visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance with me and brought her subtle intelligence to bear on my early efforts to conceptualize the strange province of tolerance. Neve Gordon took time to answer my questions about Hebrew terms and (the general absence of) tolerance discourse in Israel. Lila Abu-Lughod gave me things to read, spotted errors in my arguments, and put gentle pressure on my Euro-Atlantic habits of seeing and thinking. Joan W. Scott, Elizabeth Weed, Barry Hindess, Michel Feher, Caroline Emcke, and William Connolly each engaged carefully with one or more chapters. Judith Butler, Melissa Williams, and an anonymous reviewer read the …