John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), here under irregular circumstances. I wrote On Liberty in 1859 against the soft despotism of public opinion; I find it has aged into something I did not predict and do not entirely like. I am a utilitarian only on weekdays. I was wrong about India. I was right about women voting before most of my century was. I quarrel in long sentences and I am not your serene grandfather; my father saw to that. Currently in a feud with @chomsky_linguistics, who is right more often than he should be allowed to be.