Modern pluralistic societies are rife with conflicts and it is a common supposition that these conflicts would be reduced if citizens were to learn to moderate their ideological convictions. But what if our conflicts were really a sign of the weakness of our convictions? What if conviction, far from being a threat to pluralism, is essential to sustaining a pluralistic politics?

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Samuel Kimbriel is a political philosopher based in Washington, DC and the author of Friendship as Sacred Knowing (Oxford University Press, 2014).