On On Liberty

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

Comments

[Anonymous]

mill is an evil right winger

[Anonymous]

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

[Julian Sanchez]

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]

"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]

"John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill."

[david f]

"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]

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