(original review, 1993)As a maths and physics graduate, I observe that most compilers of the best books of all-time lists are, self-evidently, not from my side of the cultural divide. They should at the very least, it seems to me, be required to read C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" and "The Scientif...
synopsis: "Liberty is good." -JSM So John Stuart Mill likes freedom. In all forms. He argues eloquently for absolute freedom of speech and of the press predominately, with other freedoms being important, too. I always thought of "On Liberty" as a philosophical underpinning of the revolutionary e...