Many young people today seem to believe that we do not have the right to express “wrong” ideas, particularly when it comes to race and sex, because to do so would be “harmful.” The idea that harmful ...

John Stuart Mill is a key figure in Nineteenth Century British liberalism. Mill is a giant of liberalism per se, such that subsequent exegesis has been overwhelmingly praiseworthy, indeed idolatrous.

I used to dread teaching John Stuart Mill. A staple of introductory courses on political theory, On Liberty seemed more like a relic of Victorian conventionality than something relevant to the 21st ...