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Julian Sanchez | 8.12.2003 2:25 AM

Salon serves up a paean to John Stuart Mill's classic defense of free speech and personal autonomy, On Liberty.

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Anonymous 22 years ago

mill is an evil right winger
Anonymous 22 years ago

To read the rest of Salon's essay on free speech, you only have to pay $30.
Julian Sanchez 22 years ago

Actually, you don't. Scroll down and you can click for a free day pass if you're willing to sit through an ad.
Gene Berkman 22 years ago

"On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill is available in a Dover Thrift Edition for $2.50, or a Penguin Classic edition for $9.95. Either one is less expensive than subscribing to Salon.com
Shandy 22 years ago

"John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill."
david f 22 years ago

"plato, they say, could stick it away/ half a dram of whisky every day"
("and rene descartes, that drunken fart, i drink therefore i am")...

nice!

drf
Plutarck 22 years ago

Well, I for one thought it was a fantastically good article. Very inspiring and illiminating, I think.

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