J.S. Mill died 150 years ago this year and on his deathbed said to his stepdaughter, you know I've done my work. He also is under attack today from post-liberals like Patrick Deneen and Adrian Vomuli who are really constructing a caricature of Mill. In their view that Mill argued against any traditions, any customs, that we should throw out all ideas of learning and custom. And that's not what Mill argued. It would be absurd to pretend people ought to live as if nothing whatever had been known in the world before they came into it. So by being wrong about Mill, they're wrong about liberalism and therefore wrong about well, pretty much

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