Introduction / Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakaras -- Mill on liberty and on the contagious diseases acts / Jeremy Waldron -- Rational freedom in John Stuart Mill's feminism / Maria Morales -- The many heads of the hydra : J.S. Mill on despotism / Nadia Urbinati -- J.S. Mill and liberal socialism / Bruce Baum -- The method of reform : J.S. Mill's encounter with Bentham and Coleridge / Fred Rosen -- Bureaucracy, democracy, liberty : some unanswered questions in Mill's politics / Alan ryan -- Mill in parliament : when should a philosopher compromise? / Dennis Thompson -- John Stuart Mill, individuality, and participatory democracy / Alex Zakaras -- Mill's neo-athenian model of liberal democracy / Jonathan Riley -- John Stuart Mill on education and democracy / Wendy Donner -- Cosmopolitan patriotism in J.S. Mill's political thought and activism / Georgios Varouxakis -- Mill and the imperial predicament / Karuna Mantena -- Making sense of liberal imperialism / Stephen Holmes -- Mill's "a few words on non-intervention" : a commentary / Michael Walzer.