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Ep. 99 John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

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Tocqueville's Writing on Liberty

Tocqueville thought that this was at least in part a result of the way that American society was so much more level than more aristocratic European society. In a more aristocratic society, you've got aristocrats that are basically immune to this kind of pressure. We see this today sort of in the cancel culture dialogue that goes on about people. So we probably see it in various places. That would be one. You could talk about harassment on Twitter as another.

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