Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mill



In 2007 Richard Reeves published John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, a biography and account of the great Liberal's thought. In 2010 he became special adviser to Nick Clegg.

I find it encouraging that we have such a good Liberal in this role. It is well worth listening to this lecture, given at the University of Richmond, Virginia, in September 2009 under the title "The Individual and Society: How Would Mill Define ‘The Common Good'?"

Incidentally, my 2007 Liberator article Why John Stuart Mill is the greatest Liberal owed an indecent amount to Reeves.

2 comments:

David said...

Love Reeves' quote from the Headmaster of Stowe who said his job was "to turn out boys who are acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck".

Simon Titley said...

Unfortunately Reeves rather blotted his copybook by coming up with the idiotic concept of 'Alarm Clock Britain'.