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John Stuart Mill Versus the New Totalitarians

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John Stuart Mill Versus the New Totalitarians
English philosopher, politician, and social reformer, John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), circa 1860. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Roger Kimball
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I’ve expended a fair amount of ink criticizing John Stuart Mill’s ideas about liberty in his (in)famous 1859 pamphlet “On Liberty.”

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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