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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2. It's splendidly written (of course) & JS Mill was in many ways admirable figure who deserves to be celebrated. But it's also a whitewash
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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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@HeerJeet@henryfarrell Correct that Mill was not always a Millian, but does not undo the reassessment of Progressivism on the table...2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes -
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@tylercowen@HeerJeet@henryfarrell Hayek's belief that Mill was pulled to socialism by Harriet Taylor is relevant http://public.econ.duke.edu/~bjc18/docs/HOPE404-06caldwell-2.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@AlanReynoldsEcn @tylercowen @henryfarrell Idea that Mill was henpecked into socialism says more about Hayek than Mill.
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