1. I've been nursing a grudge against this Adam Gopnik New Yorker essay on John Stuart Mill for about 8 years: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/06/right-again …
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3. According to Gopnik, Mill was "a servant of British imperialism, but a benevolent kind."
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4. We can appreciate the exact nature of Mill's "benevolent" imperialism by reading him on the Irish potato famine: http://crookedtimber.org/2016/01/28/millian-liberalism-and-the-irish-famine/ …
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