The New Gatekeepers

The New Gatekeepers
An 1873 oil on canvas replica of a John Stuart Mill portrait commissioned to G.F. Watts by Sir Charles Dikes. George Frederic Watts/National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Mark Bauerlein
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The great voice of intellectual diversity is John Stuart Mill, who wrote in “On Liberty” (1859) that uniformity of opinion in society is damaging to free speech and free thought.

Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein
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Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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