COLUMN: John Stuart Mill’s defence of the persecuted individual by Zulfikhar Ghose

Zulfikar Ghose is a poet, novelist and literary critic. He is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin

Questions of liberty are as relevant today as they were when first discussed by philosophers

The state and its individual citizens have mutual obligations in democratic countries — the state to protect the individual’s freedom to say or do what he or she believes is right, the individual to say or do nothing that will harm other citizens. The

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