If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Western democratic practice to single out religious liberty for special treatment under the law is not in sync with the world we live in today, argues University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter in his new book, Why Tolerate Religion? All people, both religious and non-religious, have certain kinds of beliefs about things they feel they absolutely must do, something he calls “claims of conscience.” In the book, Leiter, the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, explores whether there are good reasons behind the tendency to grant legal exemptions to religious claims of conscience while largely rejecting non-religious ones.