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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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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@henryfarrell notes, Mill's response to famine was "to contemn in the harshest terms efforts to help" people starving to death - Show replies
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@HeerJeet G. should have said, "They described selves as 'benevolent'." More benevolent than Leopold in Congo, perhapsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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