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The Best of the OLL no. 65: Destutt de Tracy, “Of Society” (1817)

By: Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. This extract comes from…

The Best of the OLL No. 64: James Mill, “Liberty of the Press” (1825)

By: James Mill

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. This extract comes from…

The Best of the OLL No. 63: John Milton, “For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing” (1664)

By: John Milton

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. This extract comes from…

The Best of the OLL No. 62: John Stuart Mill, “On Representative Government” (1861)

By: John Stuart Mill

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Mill’s book on *Considerations of Representative Government" where he argues…

The Best of the OLL No. 61: John Trenchard, “On the Nature of Political Parties” (1721)

By: John Trenchard

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This essay on the nature of politicians and political parties comes from Trenchard and Gordon’s…

The Best of the OLL No. 60: Thomas Gordon, “On the Nature of Power” (1721)

By: Thomas Gordon

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. This one comes from Thomas Gordon’s collection of newspaper articles known as Cato’s Letters in…