While he is considered to be the greatest English intellectual of the 19th century, Mill (1806-1873) is often reduced to a set of parochial engagements with his""utilitarianism."" In this ...

RICHARD REEVES, an eminent British author and lecturer, has written a vivid biography, “John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand.” He proclaims that Mill is “unquestionably the greatest public ...

This year’s best business biographies — volumes on the lives of John Stuart Mill, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Warren Buffett — weigh in at a hefty eight and a half pounds, in toto. Fortunately, the ...

I was pleased to read Adam Gopnik’s report this week on Richard Reeves’s new biography, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Overlook). Mill (1806-1873), writer of On Liberty and The Subjection of ...

Max Mosley nominates the philosopher and proponent of personal liberty, John Stuart Mill, as his great life. With presenter Matthew Parris and biographer Richard Reeves. Max Mosley trained as a ...