John Stuart Mill Versus the New Totalitarians
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Commentary I have expended a fair amount of ink criticizing John Stuart Mill’s ideas about liberty in his (in)famous 1859 pamphlet “On Liberty.” I think that Mill’s greatest critic, James Fitzjames Stephen, was right about Mill. In his devastating polemic “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” Stephen criticized various aspects of Mill’s teaching, especially the anemic, abstract nature […]