Despite being written in 1869, the last chapter of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, titled “Chapter V: Applications,” speaks directly to many 21st century controversies. I learned a lot from blogging my way through. Take a look: 

• John Stuart Mill: Two Maxims for Liberty
• John Stuart Mill on Legitimate Ways to Hurt Other People
• The Free Market and Collective Liberty
• John Stuart Mill on Registration of the Tools of Crime
• John Stuart Mill’s Answer to the Diminished Capacity Argument
• John Stuart Mill on Public and Private Actions
• John Stuart Mill Worries about Money Corrupting Advocacy and Facilitation
• John Stuart Mill’s Laffer Curve
• John Stuart Mill on the Regulation of Bars
• John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Contract
• John Stuart Mill on the Gravity of Divorce
• John Stuart Mill: In the Parent-Child Relationship, It is the Children that Have Rights, Not the Parents
• John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers
• John Stuart Mill: Certification, Not Licensing
• Steven Landsburg, Using Utilitarian Reasoning, Upholds the Right to Bear Children Against John Stuart Mill
• How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide
• John Stuart Mill: Making the Government More Powerful than Necessary is Inimical to Freedom
• John Stuart Mill on Why a Free People, to Stay a Free People, Should Do Many Things Outside of Government
• John Stuart Mill on the Importance of Having Many Public Policy Analysts and Critics Outside of Government
• John Stuart Mill: The Central Government Should Be Slow to Overrule, but Quick to Denounce Bad Actions of Local Governments

Also, don’t miss the posts I wrote on the earlier parts of On Liberty. I have collected the links by chapter in these bibliographic posts:

Chapter I: John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom

Chapter II: John Stuart Mill’s Brief for Freedom of Speech

Chapter III: John Stuart Mill’s Brief for Individuality

Chapter IV: John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual

I actually blogged through Chapter I last after the other four chapters, completing the circle.