As I wrote last week, Michael W. Doyle has just put out a terrific book, The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill & the Responsibility to Protect. We hosted a... I’m grateful to my Cato ...

If you are this kind of liberal, you have been influenced by the 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, who was principally responsible for elucidating the ideas of classical liberalism.

But freedom of speech was never intended as freedom from responsibility. It is, as John Stuart Mill put it, a “procedure of ...

John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin or John Rawls, before, in fact, I knew anything about the world at all. Liberalism was not a political idea; it was a family loyalty, born in the blood, and it ...

I think we can and should all work a little harder to come together to show respect for wildlife, for the law and for ...

and philosophers such as John Stuart Mill. Treating people right The message of the book, as Peters writes in his introduction, is: “It is my conclusion that ‘Extreme Humanism’ – putting ...

A petition signed by 25 Irish women demanding women's right to vote was presented to parliament in London in 1866 by John Stuart Mill As the North of Ireland was known for its radical politics ...

In 1867, when Parliament was debating about whether to give working men the vote, John Stuart Mill suggested that women should also be allowed. But Parliament, which was made up entirely of men ...