Terry Eagleton: The liberal supremacists

Whether they like it or not, Dawkins, Amis, Hitchens and company have become weapons in the war on terror

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. This, surely, is the acid test of any liberal creed. Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant. A community of the broad-minded is a pleasant place...