Schmitt and the Myth about Mill and Free Speech, Benjamin Constant, and even some Spinozism

As regular readers know (recall, for example, here; here, here, and here) I believe it should be widely known — at least since the work of Jill Gordon (1997) — that J.S. Mill did not defend the idea that the market place of ideas would inevitably lead to truth. In my view Mill does not associate free speech with a market place in ideas nor does he thin…